Petition of [Asaham Ming?]

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231222 Date of creation: 1788-10-31 Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:[Asaham Ming?]Jeremiah BadcockJames LewisAntoney HensenJobe TobeyIsaac WickamJames Mie [James Mye?]Solomon AttaquinAbraham SquibNoah WepquishSeser CobbHosea RichardSipeo AllinNewport MyeQousha BulkenAmos BabcockGideon TompomJub SeversRichard Cowet Total signatures: 22.0 Females of color signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 21 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a number of the most stable Indians and proprietors of Marshpee in the county of Barnstable, [males of color], [females 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: [Not sure on first signature, Abraham Mingo?], remonstrance, appointment, Reverend, Gideon Hawley, John Percival, Reuben Fish, Barnstable, petitioning, negro trespassers, act, alcohol, liquor, slaves, corn, Ebenezer Crocker, Lot Nye, overseers, settlement, voters, meeting, sea, Daniel Davis, Jedidiah Jones, Simeon Fish, Nathaniel Baker, Mashpee Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.38, passed January 30, 1789