Petition of Moses Pognet

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208695 Date of creation: 1807-12 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Moses PognetJames MieSolomon HushJames WellsHosea KeeterSimon NedSippo AllenChris HinsonJonathan PocknettThomas NunnekinsFrank HixSarah MyAnthony LowSamuel HannetOliver SmithExperience GorgeBetsey SquibLeah KeeterRebecca SussexElizabeth HatchRebecker PocknutMarcy HinsonAnna CobbHitty ManasaSophia WamslyJohn FrancisSarah FrancisObediah WicketJohn ConetSilviney CrookJoan SmithMary LowThomas McGregoJames NewportSusan NewportChristina DegrassSally GashamRuth SeppenSally MeyHannah HixPatience Edwards Actions taken on dates: 1808-01-28,1808-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1808 and read and committed and sent up for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1808 and read and concurred Total signatures: 72.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 43 Males of color signatures: 29 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and proprietors of the plantation or district of Marshpey in the county of Barnstable, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Mashpee, Herring Pond 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: petitioning, John Fisk, Lemuel Owen, Benjamin Burgess, Herring Pond Indians, Sandwich, Barnstable county, Mashpee, proprietors, property, economy, restraints, infringements, freedom, civil liberty, noble and patriotic exertion, liberal and enlightened philanthropy, Revolutionary War, military service, declaration of Independence, Great Britain, Europe, anticipations blasted, acts, masters, strangers, Indian guardians, Barnstable county, minors, remonstrance, constitution, 5 overseers, 7 total, secretary, treasurer, constable, extra agent, wood, Herring River, funds, expenses, distance, appointment, poor, resources, trustees, James Freeman, [documents need conservation; many additional documents in folder, including list of 357 inhabitants of color in Mashpee; very important petition text], [includes notes next to signatures, such as \"no proprietor\"], [\"How could we conceive it possible that a people who were exhibiting such illustrious proofs of their attachment to freedom & so enlarged ideas of civil liberty and of the orig and design of government, that they should not respect those rights in others which they contended for themselves?\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1807, c.109, passed March 9, 1808