Petition of Gideon Hawley

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231221 Date of creation: 1788-11-05 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Gideon Hawley Actions taken on dates: 1788-11-17,1788-11-18,1789-01-05,1789-01-05 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on November 17, 1788 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on November 18, 1788 and read and concurred and received in the House on January 5, 1789 and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 5, 1789 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: guardian and agent for the Marshpee Indians 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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Oneida, country of the Six Nations, Western Indians, old colony of Plymouth, Marshpee Plantation, Mashpee, missionary, religious, Christianity, Barnstable county, rights, poor, support, instruction, education, acts, schools, lands, meadows, fisheries, regulation Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.38, passed January 30, 1789