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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548086

Date of creation: 1753

Petition location: Mashpee

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

Selected signatures:

1. Sackrus Pohpumunnit
2. Isaac Natompam
3. Daniel Pognut
4. Isaak Simon
5. His Siros Tompom
6. Joseph Weppukqush
7. Josiah Pohpummunnit
8. Matias Amos
9. Isaak Simon
10. Isaak Amos
11. Jakob Peter
12. Danel Sogkauwasinnin
13. Tim Rit
14. Naton Pgnit
15. Micah Tompam
16. Peter Pumnont
17. Jacop Natmpam
18. [Joseph Wepquish]
19. John Wepqush
20. David Sonkasun
21. Danin Seonkaunnun
22. Noah Wepqush
23. Josias Peter
24. Samuen Riggog

Actions taken on dates: 1753-12-10,1753-12-10,1753-12-11,1753-12-28,1753-12-29

Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on December 10, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred with amendment in the House on December 10, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 11, 1753 and received and read and committed in the Council on December 28, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 29, 1753 and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 24

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, sent

Males of color signatures: 24

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Indian proprietors of Mashpee so called 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: lands, meadows, Sachems Tooconchason, Wepquish, deeds, poor, war, military service, widows, children, English, removal of Indian guardians, wood, lumber, resources, houses, buildings, corn, clothing, taverns, alcohol, liquor, fighting, planted, sowed, hay, fields, agriculture, accounts, money, language, translation, Timothy Wright, Joseph Williams, Josiah Willard, Samuel Watts, William Shirley, Eleazar Porter, Spencer Phipps, James Otis, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, Joseph Buckminster, Gamaliel Bradford, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 424-428, 445-447, 449-452]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 424-426a