Petition of Elijah Pocknet

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208735 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Mashpee?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Elijah PocknetJames WamsleyNoah WebquishIsaack SimonJoshua RobinAbraham MingoRebecca AmosSamuel RichardSimon KeeterIsaac MosesAmos Badcock Actions taken on dates: 1792-01-14,1792-01-14 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 14, 1792 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and reeived in the House on January 14, 1792 and read and concurred Total signatures: 21.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 20 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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, Mashpee, liberty, corn, molasses, articles, sickness, constitution, selectmen, treasurer, wood, fishery, marsh, cattle, lands, planting, hay, sheep, house, minister, religion, fences, market, sale, fields, hunger, food, cold, clothing, hogs, dogs Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1792, Docket 1643