Petition of Nathan Pocknet

Petition subject: Indian minister Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448105 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on the Mashpee Indians Selected signatures:Nathan PocknetJesse WebquishIsrael HolmesEben LowAzubah AmosAbigail MosesJob SquibPeace SquibDrusilla LowDeliverance TumpumIsaac WickhamsSusan WickhamsJuba SeaverPatience AllenAbiah HolmesNaomi AmosMehitable SimonMary TaylorWilliam TaylorLydia SquibRuth GardnerAndrew Brown[Bash Richards?]William AmosMercy OdiorneBash CascoJohn SpeenNancy WilliamsNancy AmosQuam HazardDaniel SimonNarcissa PocknotPrince JacksonLydia RobinsonMehitable WestPatience WilburDaniel PocknetJoseph Gardner 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: 36.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 18 Males of color signatures: 15 Unidentified signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and proprietors of the plantation of Mashpee, heads of families and individuals, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry Indians"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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, 27 heads of families and 6 others, in support of Phineas Fish, pastor, removal, teacher, Reverend, meeting house, religious, includes notes next to signatures, [many additional documents in folder] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1834, c.166, passed March 31, 1834