Petition of Joseph Richards

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548479">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548479</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1779-04-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Richards</li><li>Noah Wepquish</li><li>Timothy Right</li><li>John Pognit</li><li>Willm Popmonet</li><li>Dives Quapesh</li><li>Gido Natumpum</li><li>Abram Natumpum</li><li>Jacob Kettoh</li><li>David Sonosu</li><li>Saml Richards</li><li>Wepquish Joseph</li><li>James Kettoh</li><li>Eli Moses</li><li>Mattias Amos</li><li>Isaac Amos</li><li>Simon Kety</li><li>Simon Nad</li><li>William Popmonet Jr.</li><li>William Richards</li><li>Simon Pognit</li><li>Moses Pognit</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1779-05-31,1779-06-26,1779-06-26 </p> <p>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 </p> <p>Total signatures: 22 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 22 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: others principal proprietors natives & inhabitants of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable & state of Massachusetts Bay, [males of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 223, pages 359-360 </p>