Petition of Joseph Richards

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548479 Date of creation: 1779-04-27 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joseph RichardsNoah WepquishTimothy RightJohn PognitWillm PopmonetDives QuapeshGido NatumpumAbram NatumpumJacob KettohDavid SonosuSaml RichardsWepquish JosephJames KettohEli MosesMattias AmosIsaac AmosSimon KetySimon NadWilliam Popmonet Jr.William RichardsSimon PognitMoses Pognit Actions taken on dates: 1779-05-31,1779-06-26,1779-06-26 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 Total signatures: 22 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 22 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: others principal proprietors natives & inhabitants of Mashpee in the County of Barnstable & state of Massachusetts Bay, [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 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] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 223, pages 359-360