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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548088

Date of creation: 1753

Petition location: Mashpee

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Gouornour Shirley Capt General

Selected signatures:

1. Ely Moses
2. Phillip Wapquish

Total signatures: 2

Males of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: sundry Indian inhabitants and proper proprietors of Mashpee so called in the County of Barnstable, Indian schoolmaster, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Native American tribe: Mashpee

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.

Additional archivist notes: Phillip Wepquish, schoolmaster, teachers, schools, education, answer, petitioning, William Shirley, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 424-430, 445-447, 449-452]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, page 428