bject of inquiry.

_Rev. Phineas Fish_, sworn. Testifies that he was ordained
at Marshpee in 1811. Was invited there by the Overseers of
Marshpee. There were five persons of color belonging to the
church, and sixteen whites. At the ordination, a white
man rose up and protested against it. He said all were not
satisfied. It was not a vote of the Indians by which he was
settled, and no vote of the church was taken. Five Indians had
expressed a wish that he would remain. He received two-thirds
of the Williams fund, from Harvard College. It had varied from
390 to 433 dollars. Received about 150 dollars per year from
the wood-land of the parsonage. Has built a dwelling house,
and made improvements on an acre and a half of land of the
plantation, of which he holds a deed from the Overseers,
confirmed by a resolve of the General Court.

_Mr. Gideon Hawley_ testified that the Meeting-house was
built by the funds of the English Society for propagating the
gospel, before 1757, when his father was sent as a missionary
to the Indians, by the London Missionary Society. In 1817,
five hundred dollars were granted on petition of the Indians,
as a donation by the Legislature, to repair the church for the
Marshpee Indians. After Mr. Fish had preached in Marshpee, 5
Indians came to Mr. Hawley and expressed a wish he would stay
with them. There was no vote and no record. Before his father
came to Marshpee, in 1757, Bryant, an Indian preacher, used to
preach to the Indians, in the Meeting-house. The missionary,
(Mr. Hawley,) received one hundred dollars annually, from
Harvard College, of the Williams fund. In 1778, the Indians
gave the missionary, Mr. Hawley, two hundred acres of land,
which witness inherits. [The validity of this title is not
disputed.]

_Hon. Charles Marston_, (one of the Overseers,) testified that
Mr. Fish had a Sunday School, principally composed of white
children. He did not recollect ever seeing more than eight
colored children in it. There were more whites. The Overseers
paid the school mistress seven and sixpence a week, and she
board herself. To an Indian, who kept school in winter, were
paid twelve and nineteen dollars a month. The whites who
attend Mr. Fish's meeting, never pay any thing to him or the
church. When the tax was required in parishes, many wh