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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231538

Date of creation: 1792-05-28

Petition location: [Mashpee?]

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

Selected signatures:

1. Sarah Mie
2. Abigail Pocknit
3. Elizabeth Amos
4. James Mie
5. James Keeter
6. Judas Moses
7. Noah Webquish
8. Ebenezer Quepis
9. Samuel Richard

Actions taken on dates: 1792-06-07,1792-06-08

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 7, 1792 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and reeived in the House on June 8, 1792 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 14

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

Females of color signatures: 3

Males of color signatures: 11

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: subscribers, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Gideon Hawley, Reverend, Mashpee, liberty, lands, selectmen, treasurer, town charge, wood, timber, encroachments, cattle, planting, plow, poor, hay, corn, food, labor, baskets, marsh, houses, children, bond people, preach, gospel, minister, bad man, scripture, includes list of true proprietors, ["…We do not complain for nought and that we have reason enough to murmer for what can people do when they have no liberty for we are wors of then any bond slaves for when they are sick there masters by law are ablige to seport them out of there stait but when we are sick we must seport ourselves..."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1792, Docket 1643

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.