DOI: 10.7910/dvn/xpobhr
title: Petition of Phineas Fish

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Minister and meeting house &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857852"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857852&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1839-03-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Mashpee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Kimball, Essex; committee on that subject &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phineas Fish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1839-03-21,1839-03-21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 21, 1839 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 21, 1839 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: missionary at Marshpee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Mashpee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, religious, Ebenezer Attaquin, petitioning, meeting house, building, 1838, repairs, house of worship, another denomination, distance, travel, Baptist meeting, crowded, school houses, Reverend E.G. Perry, four coloured families, 84 different coloured persons, spies, employ every disingenuous act to prevent attendance on my meeting, sabbath schools, bible classes, missionary, pastor, train of foreign hostile influence, religious societies, Williams Foundation, Dr. Williams, all Christians at the Lord's Table, religious teacher, close communion, temple, great feast of love, remonstrate, remonstrance, half of college salary, selectmen, let my arm fall from the shoulder blade, Congregational purposes, parsonage lot, lands, Harvard College corporation, contract, school master, minister, cart wood, expenses, persecution, expulsion, fanatic, love of victory and the hope of suppressing all religious liberty, minor topies of the Christian system, lead us not into (this) temptation, history of recent events, dominant party, encroaching in their disposition, 1834, legal adviser, letters read in town meeting, counsel, for five years past been ruled by the same spirit, their first petition, 1833, dismiss and remove, annoyance, treacherous, artifice, no bounds to their claims and demands upon me, no concession, demands increased, foreign influence exerted upon them, extinction of an ancient order of Christianity and of a Church of Christ dating its era from the venerable Elliot, Reverend John Eliot, barely allowing us to taste the cup of comfort, protest, unsavory truths, helped to a place of worship by themselves, same charity, felo de se, whole heart, cannot but feel we shall surrender all, give our opponents no use in the meeting house or give them all &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10477 &lt;/p&gt;