Petition of Israel Amos

Petition subject: Various grievances of Mashpee Indians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481281 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Israel AmosThomas HushSimon LowEbenezer AttaquinAbner HicksWilliam JonesBethuel ApesDavid MingoWilliam ApesDaniel PocknettDavid WilberJoseph SquibCharles DegrassAaron KeeterOaks A. CoombsChristopher HinsonJames LewisSamuel CrookGeorge CanadaJoseph GardnerDavid AmosJames MyeThomas JonesJoseph TobiasJohn SpeenIsaac WickhamSampson AlvisThaddeus LowEphraim JewettLein MingoPersis AttaquinSally HicksDesire MingoOfeliea CezarSarah JonesAbby ApesJoanah CowettAmy WilburThankful RobbinsMartha PocknettLydia SquibMargery GarnerMary KeeterLydia JacksonSusannah HInsonMora MegnegroMatthew PeterOlive WilliamsChristina DegrassDesire SimonsMatilda GardnerLydia CoombsSarah CanadaBashsheba BurtMary CeptemPatience CrookPatience AllenMatthew SummonsSarah AttaquinMary BrownJane LowMary AmosMary HushBetsey SmithDiademia TobiaRebeccah LowSally HinsonBethiah PocknettAnna FollerJoseph CesarIsaac Simons Jr.Oliver SepittJeremiah MiesMoses KeeterAbel TownsendJoshua PocknettAntona HinsonJames Quippish[Watron Freeman?]Isaac DodgeWilliam MingoJames BrownSimon WallaceGiblert LowSolomon AttaquinWilliam AustinWilliam BurtAlexander HolmesJohn AmosDavid CuffSimon NeedBenjamin MiahJeremiah MoodyJohn LibitAbel MannassahSpencer EdwardsTimothy WestJohn AmyDavid RobbinsPeter FowlerJames PellsGeorge SmithJames FowlerJohn GibbinsAbraham JerrettJulia Ann PocknettRuth WilliamsHarriet AustinBetsey CowettMahalee ReedSusannah MiahPhebe AmosLeah LewisDianah WickumDorkas WeebquishMary JonesSefronah HolmesMariah WilburSally SmithSarah RobbinsDianah GardnerEunice PocknettJane MarstonHosea CoombsEliza HushSarah SquibJane WamsleyMariah Browne Legislative action: Laid on the table Total signatures: 287.0 Legislative action summary: Laid on the table Females of color signatures: 129.0 Males of color signatures: 158.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: proprietors and inhabitants of the Marshpee Plantation, signed by 79 males and 92 females on the plantation, and in behalf of 79 males and 37 females who are absent and will not return to live under the present laws, in all 287, A voice from the Marshpee Indians, The Marshpee Tribe, The Marshpee Indians and witnesses to the above, names males, names females, [males of color], [females of color], ["proprietors and inhabitants of the Marshpee Plantation"] 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, William Apess, property, abolition of ownership, incorporation, Cherokees, Phineas Fish, Reverend, minister, overseers, preacher, Indian guardians, municipal code of laws, appointment, magistrates, repeal of the existing laws, guardianship, exception of the law preventing them from selling their lands, sale, redress of grievances, representative, oppression, lands, liberties, prejudices, sighing and weeping under bondage, degredation, sorrow and disgrace, complaints, common courts, Christian philanthropist, poor and insignificant creatures, instrut, citizens, state of cultivation, divided, drinking, alcohol, liquor, meeting, souls, royal or real native blood, church and society, removal, justice, Bill of Complaints, statement, original proprietors of the soil, whose laws has ground us to the dust, government, unconstitutional, constitution, law, fathers, equalized and respected, rights, treachery, hereditary government, change, worship, funds, two ministerial farms, Gideon Hawley, expenses, meeting house, school houses, meetings, debating, societies, worship, sabbath, widows, children, bread, borders, highway robbers, thieves, prison, sea, women, fishery, fishing, Mr. Warner, district attorney, homes, roads, wood, poor, ship timber, cedar swamps, sale, fences, commons, taxation, meadows, cow, hay, shares, cattle, livestock, auction, farming, hunting, teachers, clothing, suit of coarse factory cloth, shingles, boards, houses, doctor, income, services, swindle, debts, credit, dissatisfaction, temporal, sober, industrious, charges, wronged out of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars, trades, business, merchantable, seafaring, navigation, globe, sachem fathers, attorney, municipal regulations, murdering us by inches, [includes notes, "presented by - the above not to be presented", includes lengthy notes next to signatures, men at sea, some...