Petition of Walter Spooner

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208692 Date of creation: 1790-01-15 Petition location: [Mashpee?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Walter SpoonerShearjashub Bourne Legislative action: Committed and note on third reading Total signatures: 2.0 Legislative action summary: Committed, read Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: overseers and guardians of that plantation 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, law, regulation, Barnstable county, rents, removal, action, common law, ejected, costs of suit, officers, appointments, hog reeves, fence viewers, wardens, surveyors of ways, constable, building, house, families, settlement, inhabitants, poor Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1789, c.52, passed March 4, 1790