Petition of Simon Nad

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208693 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Simon NadNoah WipquishIsaac AmosEbenezer QuibishSolomon WepqueshSimon KeterJacob KeeterNathan PognittHosea RichardZacheus PocknitIsaac HalfdayPeter IsaacAbraham MingoJoseph WebquishAmos BadcockThomas NunkinsGideon Tompom Jr. Total signatures: 22.0 Males of color signatures: 22 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of colour of the district of Marshpee, [males of color] 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, proprietors, property, lands, freedom, Revolutionary War, civil liberty, noble and patriotic exertions, liberal and enlightened spirit of philanthropy, privileges, independence, declaration of American independence, Great Britain, Europe, constitution, first article in the bill of rights, disappointed, anticipations blasted, acts, masters, hereditary monarch, Republican government, laws, representatives, Indian guardians, slaves, Eastern Despotism, common reservoir, military service, bodies, shackles, restraints, mockery of our wrongs, objects of contempt and derision, justice, equity, ["How could we conceive it possible that a people who were exhibiting such illustrious proofs of their attachment to freedom, & so enlarged ideas of the principles of civil liberty, & of the original design of government should not respect rights in others which they so warmly contended for themselves."], ["...we have not the privilege allowed by law to white infants of fourteen years of age."], ["We are only taught enough to see and to deplore our forlorn condition."], ["With the lance and the harpoon we wage war with the mighty monsters of the deep; alternatively scorching beneath the equatorial heat of the sun, and shivering in the frozen regions of the north to increase the wealth and the commerce of this country."], [whaling] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1795, c.48, passed February 22, 1796