Petition of Jonathan Cuffe

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208705">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208705</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1815-04-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Gayhead </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Jonathan Cuffe</li><li>Joel Rogers</li><li>Abraham Cooper</li><li>Dorcas Poor</li><li>Paul Cuffe</li><li>Johnson Peters</li><li>Abigail Rogers</li><li>Abigail Brown</li><li>Amy Wamsley</li><li>Patience Gershom</li><li>Sarah Horton</li><li>Sarah Henry Hazard</li><li>Rhoda D. Grass</li><li>Lydia Johnson</li><li>Amos Jeffers</li><li>Hannah Francis</li><li>Bulah Occooch</li><li>Peggy Bates</li><li>Hannah Mannings</li><li>Esther Stephens</li><li>Lydia David</li><li>Hannah Cuffe</li><li>Pero Peters</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 54.0 </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 31 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 23 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: proprietors of Gayhead, [males of color], [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Native American tribe: Gayhead </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Gayhead, Gay Head, Simon Mayhew, representative, Chilmark, petitioning, act, law, Zachariah Howwoswee, Peter Tolman, lands, Barnstable, supreme judicial court, Kilborn Whitman, James Washburn, creek, fishery, Nathaniel Mayhew, William Mayhew, Benjamin Mayhew, Matthew Mayhew, Thomas Hazard, New Bedford, Benjamin Bassett, Boston, trader and retailer of ardent spirits, liquor, alcohol, Governor Gerry, Tristram Allen, appointment, Jonathan Panue, clothing, Thaddeus Cooke, house, pasture, cows, Indian corn, accounts, clay, sand, cliffs, porcelain and glass companies, Samuel Nickerson, lawsuits; includes note next to signature indicating that she is the mother of Jonathan </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, [April 1, 1815] </p>