Petition of Nathaniel Fish

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208690">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208690</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: [Mashpee?] </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathaniel Fish</li><li>Simeon Fish</li><li>Barzillai Weeks</li><li>James Colman</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 4.0 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: humble petitioners </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, overseers, Great Britain, Revolutionary War, military service, families, widows, voting, district meetings, elections, qualified voters, liquor, alcohol, settlement, whaling business, lands, meadow, in common </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.2, passed June 12, 1788 </p>