Petition of Timothy Woodbridge

Petition subject: Education Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548076 Date of creation: 1753 Petition location: Stockbridge Selected signatures:Timothy WoodbridgeStephen NashJoseph WoodbridgeDavid PixleyJohn WillardJoseph BarnardClark PixleyJohn TaylorSamuel BrownJosiah JonesSamuel Brown Jr.Jonathan DevereuxBen KaukewenshnauntJohn PohpnekhannowuhSolomon WaunaumpkusPeter NaunauhekunnukPohquunnuppeetNeshoonuhhukJohoiakim YoukunPaul WaumpeetkhawnIssac WnaumpeyEbenezer PohpoonukMohkauwauweetQuansTom ShermanJames WohcoheekkomeekJacob NotokkaumunWepukshohMautokgkaumunJacob NaunauphtankyTauwaumpehPoopootenKauuhwaupQuansqueekheekAaron WohwauwousJohn WauwaumpequunnaauitJonas EtouwaukaumJohanni MtohksinJehoiakim ShawanunJosiah WaumohhewyHendrick WaupohqssetAdam WaulaunkuhmeetCornelious NauwwokkeeseQunnaukauntJames ChenequunWossiauwaukehHendrick NaumenokhunitJacob WautaunkaumeetWauwohunmauwosNoah KhusquantaumSolomon AumpaumitStephen ShermanHandrick WaunaumpeeAdam NaunaunekaunuckWonaumgos Total signatures: 55 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the inhabitants of Stockbridge, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee 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: free boarding school, children, lands, wilderness, English settlements, Upper Housatonic, proprietors, John Sergeant, Martin Kellogg, schoolmaster, dieted, clothed, clothing, instruction, industry, town school, reading, literacy, progress, idle life, government, uncivil, mischievous, unruliness, disorder, Hollisian School, education, schools, minister, religious, Reverend Jonathan Edwards, response to report by Colonel Joseph Dwight and Captain John Ashley, management, Western tribes, female boarding school, buildings, chimera, Joseph Hawley, Boston, Great Barrington, Sheffield, Society for Propagation of the Gospel, Mohawk, Six Nations, Indian guardians, clergy, Captain Williams, John Konkapot, Spencer Phipps, includes note, transcript of letter to Isaac Hollis, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 299-310] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 365-374