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Petition of Moses Job

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Title Petition of Moses Job
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ADUTHJ
 
Creator Digital Archive of Native American Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548344

Date of creation: 1776

Petition location: Mashpee

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

  1. Moses Job
  2. [Phillip Wapquish]
  3. Mathias Amos
  4. Joseph Richard
  5. Joseph Porege
  6. William Popmonet
  7. Noah Wepquish
  8. Jacob Ceater
  9. Davide Sunkcouson
  10. [Simon Ketour]
  11. Joseph Wepquish
  12. [Jameson Keosom]
  13. Samuel Moses
  14. Abarham Natumpom
  15. Gideon Natompom Jr.
  16. Gideon Natompom
  17. James Mie
  18. Prince Jackson
  19. Joushua Pognett
  20. Hosea Pognett
  21. Simon Pognett
  22. Moses Pognett
  23. Hosea Pognett
  24. John Pognett

Actions taken on dates: 1776-12-30,1777-01-23

Legislative action: Committed on December 30, 1776 and reported [on January 23, 1777]

Total signatures: 25

Legislative action summary: Committed, reported

Males of color signatures: 25

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Indian proprietors of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable, [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: sale, lands, boundaries, Peter's Pond, Sandwich, Falmouth, marked pine tree, Captain Simeon Fish, house, buildings, Pickerell Cove, Mashpee Pond, Pimlico Pond, Nathaniel Fish Jr., Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America, blankets, bounties, supplies, Indian guardians

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 144, pages 386-387a


 
Subject Social Sciences
committed
reported
Mashpee
Manuscript
Several names from a committee
Abarham Natumpom
Davide Sunkcouson
Gideon Natompom
Gideon Natompom Jr.
Hosea Pognett
Hosea Pognett
Jacob Ceater
James Mie
John Pognett
Joseph Porege
Joseph Richard
Joseph Wepquish
Joushua Pognett
Mathias Amos
Moses Job
Moses Pognett
Noah Wepquish
Prince Jackson
Samuel Moses
Simon Pognett
William Popmonet
[Jameson Keosom]
[Phillip Wapquish]
[Simon Ketour]
males of color
the Indian proprietors of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable
No
25
25
 
Date 1776