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Petition of Joseph Richards

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Title Petition of Joseph Richards
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EACNN5
 
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:28548479

Date of creation: 1779-04-27

Petition location: Mashpee

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

Selected signatures:

  1. Joseph Richards
  2. Noah Wepquish
  3. Timothy Right
  4. John Pognit
  5. Willm Popmonet
  6. Dives Quapesh
  7. Gido Natumpum
  8. Abram Natumpum
  9. Jacob Kettoh
  10. David Sonosu
  11. Saml Richards
  12. Wepquish Joseph
  13. James Kettoh
  14. Eli Moses
  15. Mattias Amos
  16. Isaac Amos
  17. Simon Kety
  18. Simon Nad
  19. William Popmonet Jr.
  20. William Richards
  21. Simon Pognit
  22. Moses Pognit

Actions taken on dates: 1779-05-31,1779-06-26,1779-06-26

Legislative action: Committed on May 31, 1779 and received and granted in the House on June 26, 1779 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 26, 1779

Total signatures: 22

Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred

Males of color signatures: 22

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: others principal proprietors natives & inhabitants of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable & state of Massachusetts Bay, [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: Gideon Hawley, reverend, religious, meeting, lands, deeds, meadows, William Popmonet, Gideon Natumpum, Samuel Richards, Reuben Eldred, Nathaniel Fish, Dimuck, Tyler, Lyman, John Avery, John Hancock, includes note, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 359-362]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 223, pages 359-360


 
Subject Social Sciences
committed
concurred
granted
read
received
sent
Mashpee
Manuscript
Several names from a committee
Abram Natumpum
David Sonosu
Dives Quapesh
Eli Moses
Gido Natumpum
Isaac Amos
Jacob Kettoh
James Kettoh
John Pognit
Joseph Richards
Mattias Amos
Moses Pognit
Noah Wepquish
Saml Richards
Simon Kety
Simon Nad
Simon Pognit
Timothy Right
Wepquish Joseph
William Popmonet Jr.
William Richards
Willm Popmonet
males of color
others principal proprietors natives & inhabitants of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable & state of Massachusetts Bay
No
22
22
 
Date 1779-04-27