Petition of Moses Porknit

Petition subject: Rights, liberties, and resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935278 Date of creation: 1811-01-28 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Moses PorknitSarah MyesPrince NewportChristiana D. GrassWilliam MingoSally AttaquinJane Amos Actions taken on dates: 1811-02-01 Legislative action: Committed February 1, 1811 Total signatures: 80.0 Legislative action summary: Referred to a committee Females of color signatures: 40.0 Males of color signatures: 40.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: blackes of the plantation of Marshpe, [males of color], [females of color], ["natives of Mashpee"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: 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: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, liberty, bondage, cord wood, meadows, cattle, lands, strangers, sale, debts, removal, Indian guardians, overseers, expenses, balance, John Davis, Barnstable, [Samuel ?], Thomas H. Tobey, Sandwich Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1811, Docket 6902