Petition of Oaks A. Combs

Petition subject: Indian resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448947 Date of creation: 1847-01-25 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas B. Lewis, Barnstable; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Oaks A. CombsNathan PocknetEbenezer AttaquinPeter SquibJoseph MillsJacob ApellsDavid WilburCharles DegrasseDavid MyersSolomon WepquishMatthias AmosTimothy PocknetJoshua PocknetRowland G. ColemanSolomon AttaquinBenjamin AttaquinSimon LowJohn BrownPeter FollerDivers QuippishJoseph Gandner[Alven Manings?]Isaac JonesSamuel Godfrey[Lisbon Josomson?]Joseph TobiasSimon KeeterDaniel AmosJoseph Cesar Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-11 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 29.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Males of color signatures: 29.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: proprietors and colored inhabitants of the district of Marshpee in Massachusetts, [males of color], ["Indians of Marshpee"] 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, Oaks A. Coombs, privileges of killing seafowl in the harbors, bays, ponds, rivers, Falmouth, injured by the habit of many persons chasing said fowl in boats early in the season before they become habituated to said bays and ponds for the winter, driven from their haunts, only allowed to shoot them from stands on the beaches where they fly over, law, Waquoit Bay Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1847, Docket 12024