Petition of Joseph Amos

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231220 Date of creation: 1788-07-30 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joseph AmosSamuel RobensJohn FrancisMordica JobeJacob KeetenWilliam SimonsJeremiah AmeyRichard CowetJames LewisJames WamsleyAaron RalphJames RaymondJoseph AsherHenry WilliamsMoses PocknetJoseph WepquishJoshua RobenWilliam RichardIsaac HalfdayJuba SevoursCeasor Cobb Total signatures: 32.0 Males of color signatures: 32 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Mashpee Indians, [males of color] 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: Richard Bourne, address, Shearjashub Bourne, Thomas Smith, Indian Meeting House, Mashpee, acts, Colony of New Plymouth, religious, deeds, lands, records, overseers, appointments, rights, regulation, trespasses, meadow, uplands, cultivated fields, wild woods, fish ponds, bays, creeks, rivers, Constitution, minors, liberty, property, whale fishery, fishermen, foreigners, aliens, Nova Scotia, Halifax, vessels Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.38, passed January 30, 1789