Petition of Moses Pocknet

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208680 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Moses PocknetEbenezer QuippishHosea RichardWilliam RichardJames KeeterJames LewisSimon NedSolomon AttaquinJuba Severs[Sippo Allin?]Thomas RaymondAmos BadcockSarah MieHannah BadcockPatience WomsleyMartha HensonPeter HoldenJames WomsleyJeremiah SquibbJohn HortenHenry DatesJohn BakerJube FreebodyAnthony LowCuff SwiftAbigail PocknetDeliverance TompomExperience SwiftHosea MosesCezer CobbCezer SmithSamuel RichardNancy AmeMercy RalphJane HammondAmos BabcockSarah HoldenElizabeth PollardEliza Hatch Total signatures: 70.0 Females of color signatures: 27 Males of color signatures: 37 Unidentified signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of colour of the district of Marshpee, [males of color], [females of color], [minors] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: remonstrance, overseers, pastor, Reverend, law, freedom, temporal lord and master, Revolutionary War, proprietors, rights, Ebenezer Bacon, Nathaniel Freeman, [folder includes lengthy address of Gideon Hawley and response by Nathaniel Freeman on behalf of the Indians], Mashpee Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1795, c.20, passed June 11, 1795