Petition of Simon Popmonit

<p>Petition subject: Against slavery </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909872">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909872</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1700-05-24 </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Simon Popmonit</li><li>George Wapock</li><li>John Perkins</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: His Maj-ties King Williams subjects, Indians, inhabitants of Mashpau and places adjacent in the town of Sandwich or near thereto in the province of Massachusetts, in the behalf of their neighbors, [males of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Mashpee Indians, [religious] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 456 </p>