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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548131

Date of creation: 1755-09-24

Petition location: Pembroke

Selected signatures:

1. Gamaliel Bradford
2. Josiah Edson Jr.
3. Nathaniel Smith

Total signatures: 3

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Guardians to the Indians at the Place called Mattekeset in Pembrook in the County of Plymouth, guardians aforesd

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: answer, Patience Thomas, Patience Sachamis, Caleb Brand, Peter Job, Mattakeset, Mattakeeset, Mattakeesett, Mattakeesit, leases, lands, Boston, Indian guardians, dwelling houses, buildings, foreigners, new comers, Sachems, women, petitioning, white people, rents, Henry Josselyn, Thomas Josselyn, fences, improvements, saplings, wood, Spencer Phipps, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 609-610, 624-625, 675-676, 696-698]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 675-676