Petition of Nathaniel Fish

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208690 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Mashpee?] Selected signatures:Nathaniel FishSimeon FishBarzillai WeeksJames Colman Total signatures: 4.0 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: humble petitioners 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, overseers, Great Britain, Revolutionary War, military service, families, widows, voting, district meetings, elections, qualified voters, liquor, alcohol, settlement, whaling business, lands, meadow, in common Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.2, passed June 12, 1788