Petition of Ebenezer Attaquin

Petition subject: Minister and meeting house Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148870 Date of creation: 1839-03-01 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Whitmarsh, Bristol; several names from a committee Selected signatures:Ebenezer AttaquinSolomon AttaquinWilliam MingoJames AmosDavid NashFrancis HicksSimon KeeterEzra AttaquinWilliam JonesSimon LowAbel SkiperTimothy PocknetChristopher HinsonEbenezer Attaquin Jr.Isaac CoombsNathan PocknetDavid WilburCharles DegrasseSampson AlvisNicholas PocknetAaron KeeterJohn YoungMoses PocknetJoseph TobiasIsaac SimonsJoseph Gardner Jr.Abraham JacksonJacob ApellsEben LowOaks A. CoombsGeorge GanesSpencer EdwardsJoshua PocknetJob SquibJeremiah HicksJoseph Tobias Jr.Anthony HinsonWilliam Holland[George Coneray?]Gideon TompomDaniel QueppishJames Brown Actions taken on dates: 1839-03-07,1839-03-07,1839-03-21,1839-03-21 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 7, 1839 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 7, 1839 and concurred and recommitted in the Senate on March 21, 1839 and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 21, 1839 and concurred Total signatures: 43.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, recommitted, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 43 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: proprieters, inhabitents, [males of color], ["Marshpee Indians"] 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, religious, petition of Reverend Phineas Fish, funds, repair, money, worship, minister of our own choice, Reverend E.G. Perry, missionary, two school houses, sabbath, distance, sabbath schools, bible classes, used almost exclusively by the whites, petitioning, ["We have known women to walk from three to six miles distant and then not be able to get into the house when they arrived."] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10477