Petition of Zachariah Hawsooitt

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855942 Date of creation: 1747-11-30 Petition location: Gay Head Selected signatures:Zachariah HawsooittJosiah PomitJonathan AkoochukJames TashmanThomas TaquuyIsaac HosveitJeremiah AllmikJohn AckoochikJosep PomitJarimiah SaowamogJosep JoelJosep PaulSamuel Pomit Jr.Mathew OntokqueBarabas IsaacMary QuanisBethiah EsauSarah PanueEzther HeryEzther PomitElis HeryMartha HearySarah PaulJoyes GarshimMichpah EkenMoses ParohMoses JobSarah JoelMarcy PhillipMary NoahJean HossveitMary CheekesNoah KesukJude HossveitLaban HossveitWilliam CheeksPhilip WassanonJoseph Panue Actions taken on dates: 1750-04-17 Legislative action: Received and read and revived in the Council on April 17, 1750 and sent for concurrence [crossed out] Total signatures: 38 Legislative action summary: Received, read, revived, sent Females of color signatures: 14 Males of color signatures: 24 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: others that subscribe hereunto being the Indian Inhabitants Proprietors and Owners of a Plantation of Land at the Gayhead on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County in the Province aforsd, [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: Zachariah Hawsooit, Zachariah Hossveit, Zachariah Hoswit, appointments, not proper, Beriah Tilton, Timothy Mayhew, Doctor Benjamin Tupper, Boston, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Tisbury, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 550-552] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 551