Petition of Joseph Pomet

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548242 Date of creation: 1767-03-23 Petition location: Gay Head Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joseph PometJoseph MaquaAbel GorgeAbigal MaquaJoseph Panue Jr.Simon JoelJoseph BameserSemes JoelNaomi GorgeJohn OhkahSilos JonsonTabida PomitEster PomitEls HarryOld BarbarySilas PaulJeremiah SowomogBethiah TauknutPatience DavidJudath TauknutBersheba JoelNaomi JoelSarah Quape Actions taken on dates: 1767-06-02,1767-06-02,1767-06-03,1767-06-03 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 2, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 2, 1767 and reported to serve a copy of the petition and received and read and granted in the Council on June 3, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 3, 1767 Total signatures: 23 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 10 Males of color signatures: 13 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians of the Gay head in Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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: Gayhead, Gay Head, Indian guardians, appointments, sale, lands, fences, animals, agriculture, James Ahearn, James Ahern, James Athearn, Dukes County, lumber, Francis Bernard, William Brattle, John Cotton, Thomas Cushing, Timothy Danielson, Josiah Edson, Lane, Thomas Hubbard, Andrew Oliver Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 416-417