Petition of Walter Spooner

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208694">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208694</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Walter Spooner</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: By order of the board of overseers of the district of Marshpee </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: strangers, poor, indigent, houses, firewood, schools, fences, Indian guardians, preservation, removal, selectmen, overseers of the poor, law, appointment, Daniel Eldridge and Ephraim Badger and families; Ceesar Gorham and three other blacks; Peleg West, Thomas Ames, James West and families; Drover a negro and his family; Gideon Hawley, Mashpee </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1796, c.23, passed June 17, 1796 </p>