Petition of Samuel Cagenhew

Petition subject: Religion Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548199 Date of creation: 1762-01 Petition location: Chappaquiddick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee who have other affairs of Chapaquidic under consideration Selected signatures:Samuel CagenhewBanjeman NatakPeter DophasPelex WaniThomas EzekelBogman Moses Actions taken on dates: 1762-01-22,1762-01-22 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on January 22, 1762 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 22, 1762 Total signatures: 6 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the Indians of the Island of Chopiqutick in Dukes County, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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 archivist notes: meeting house, private houses, assemble, construction, money, English proprietors, whaling, religious, buildings, accounts, Indian whalemen, whaling, sabbath, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Francis Bernard Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, page 187