Petition of Phineas Fish

Petition subject: Indian minister Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448105 Date of creation: 1833-12-30 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on the Mashpee Indians Selected signatures:Phineas Fish Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-29,1834-01-30 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1834 and referred to the committee on the Mashpee Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 30, 1834 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: memorialist, missionary to the Indians of Mashpee 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: Mashpee, Indian guardians, Reverend, religious, missionary, denomination, parsonage, wood land, meeting house, Congregational use, privileges, includes petition of support, [many additional documents in folder] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1834, c.166, passed March 31, 1834