Petition of Gideon Hawley

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231218 Date of creation: 1788-05 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Gideon Hawley Legislative action: Sent to a committee to look into the law respecting the Mashpee tribe of Indians Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian minister 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, religious, charitable donations, England, lands, bill, Barnstable county, Society for Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians and Others in North America, Oliver Wendell, personal rights Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.2, passed June 12, 1788