Petition of Nathaniel Stone

<p>Petition subject: Resources </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548165">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548165</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1758-02-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Harwich </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathaniel Stone</li><li>Joseph Hall</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Guardians to the Potnument Indians </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: Potnumeket, Potawaumacut, Potnument, Potanumaquut, Eastham, Harwich, Indian guardians, privileges, lands, Billingsgate Point, Billingsgate Beach, Silvanus Snow, whaling, buildings, Thomas Pownall, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 10-20, 28-33d] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, page 28 </p>