Petition of John Cakquit

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855831 Date of creation: 1726-11-29 Petition location: [Chappaquiddick] Selected signatures:John Cakquit Actions taken on dates: 1726-12-03,1726-12-03,1726-12-26,1726-12-28 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition and gather evidence in the Council on December 3, 1726 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 3, 1726 and received and read with answer and Enoch Coffin appointed in the Council on December 26, 1726 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and dismissed in the House on December 28, 1726 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, appointed, sent, received, read, not concurred, dismissed Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the body of Indians Natives of the Island of Chabbaquiddick in Dukes County, [males of color], ["Chebacquidick Indians"] 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: Chappaquiddick, lands, abuses of their agent, overseer, Simeon Butler, with connivance of their sachem, Sachem Jacob Sekinnaunt, Jacob Seeknout, removal, new agent, sell, sale, planting privilege, English house, buildings, Jonathan Dunham and family, flocks, herds, [wabsqua?], joynt grass, joint grass, materials for building houses, wood, flee, remote wilderness, slaves, slavery, fences, oppressed, investigation, evidence, hearing, replacement by justice Enoch Coffin, flattering tongue, Indian guardians, debts, English cattle, liquor, alcohol, John Worth, Josiah Willard, William Dummer, William Dudley, Joseph Dudley, Enoch Coffin Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 129-131