Petition of Gideon Hawley

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231223 Date of creation: 1794-12-15 Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Gideon Hawley Total signatures: 1.0 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: missionary to Indians 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, Plymouth county, propagation of the gospel, regulation, speculators, lands, Mr. Nye, Mr. Parker, support, poor, aged, infirm, forty widows, orphans and children, schools, education, clothing, Indian guardians, common lands, meadows, woods, proprietors, improvement, officers, plantation, complaints, petitioning, Mr. Thompson of the Senate, Joseph Nye Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1795, c.48, passed February 22, 1796