Petition of Gideon Nautumpum

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231224 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Gideon NautumpumDeliverance NautumpumWilliam MingoSarah PognetSarah QuibishEllezebeth SquibMary MarstonFrancis MarstonJane AmousBarsheba RichardAbigail PocknetJoannah CowetHosea KeeterSarah SimonIsaac WickhamsPatience DownsAbraham SpeenLois GouldEbenezer AttaquinLelia BadcockSarah HoldenSarah KeeterElisha AmosAaron RalphNancy AmeyBetsey SpywoodNancy GreenLydia CoombsJohn FreemanMary PeppnerJuby SeverJob SquibGenny Dodge Total signatures: 78.0 Females of color signatures: 45 Males of color signatures: 26 Unidentified signatures: 7 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian proprietors and inhabitants of the plantation of Marshpee in the county of Barnstable, [males of color], [females of color], [\"Mashpee Indians\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: Reverend, Gideon Hawley, Mashpee, rights, freemen, regulation, board of overseers, law, acts, debts, religious instruction, support, school, education, teacher, poor, wood, leasing, lands, speculators, funds, constitution, meeting, secretary, agent, Herring River, appointment, preservation of fish, Indian guardians, treasurer, accounts Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1807, c.109, passed March 9, 1808