Petition of Nathan Pocknet

Petition subject: Indian minister Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481280 Date of creation: 1834-01-01 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on the Mashpee Indians Selected signatures:Nathan PocknetHannah PocknetJesse WebquishDaniel SimonElijah PocknetPrudence PocknetAlice QuippishNarcissa PocknotMehitable SimonWilliam TaylerMorey TaylerLydia SquibHannah GardnerIsaac HolmesAndrew BrownNaomi AmosIsaac WickhamsDrusilla JacksonMercy OdiorneSylvia CascoJohn SpeenJames WilliamsPatience WilburSarah MosesQuam HazardBethiah Hazard Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-24,1834-01-29,1834-01-30 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1834 and laid on the table and received in the House on January 29, 1834 and referred to the committee on the Mashpee Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 30, 1834 and concurred Total signatures: 52.0 Legislative action summary: Received, laid on table, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 31.0 Males of color signatures: 19.0 Unidentified signatures: 2.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: proprietors and inhabitants of the plantation of Marshpee, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry Marshpee 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: Mashpee, [William Apes], Apes a Pequot Indian, Reverend Phineas Fish, religious, repeal, law, regulation, government, family, lands, minister, salary, Harvard University, board of overseers, appointment, contracts, sale, wood, support, report, followers, warrant, indicted, grand jury, Barnstable county, convicted, jury, riot, mischief, Indian guardians, dismissal, removal, property, remonstrate, remonstrance, resources, management, poor, sick, attendance, bills, medicine, schools, school houses, debts, act, committee, agent, includes notes next to signatures, [many additional documents in folder] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1834, c.166, passed March 31, 1834