Petition of Old Ahaton

<p>Petition subject: King Philip's War </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855758">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855758</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1676 </p> <p>Petition location: Deer Island </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Old Ahaton</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: [males of color] </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: Nipmuc </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 archivist notes: Washawcow, Mamentauge, Momentaug, Joseph Menonnian, Ponkapoag, Old Ahattonne, request for permission to leave Deer Island for Long Island, threatened and shot at and provisions running low, Boston, clams, wood, internment camps, to go to some place where they can secure food, date of creation from index to volume </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 200a </p>