Petition of Thomas Mogrego

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231219 Date of creation: 1788-12-29 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Thomas MogregoThomas HatchJuba SeversJames LewisLevi MieJoseph SquibAbraham MingoNoah WepquishJudah MosesAmos BadcockSimon PepenahGideon NoatompamQuash BulkinRichard CowetSolomon Attaquin Total signatures: 24.0 Males of color signatures: 24 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: poor distressed Indians proprietors of Marshpee in the county of Barnstable, [males of color] 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: Gideon Hawley, Reverend, Reuben Fish, Samuel Savage, John Percival, Joseph Nye, Sturgis Gorham, Mashpee, Barnstable county, law, act, regulation, appointments, overseers, lands, settlement, improvement, hunting, fishing, fowling, support, resolve, accounts, missionary, society in England, resources, Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America, [Noah Webquish], [Amos Babcock] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.38, passed January 30, 1789