DOI: 10.7910/dvn/gedli1
title: Petition of Moses Pognet

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian guardians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208695"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208695&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1807-12 &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: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Pognet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Mie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Hush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Wells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Ned&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sippo Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Chris Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Nunnekins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank Hix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah My&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Hannet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oliver Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Experience Gorge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsey Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leah Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Sussex&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Hatch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecker Pocknut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marcy Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Cobb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hitty Manasa&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sophia Wamsly&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Francis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Francis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obediah Wicket&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Conet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silviney Crook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joan Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas McGrego&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Newport&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Newport&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christina Degrass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Gasham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Seppen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Mey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Hix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Edwards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1808-01-28,1808-01-29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1808 and read and committed and sent up for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1808 and read and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 72.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 43 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and proprietors of the plantation or district of Marshpey in the county of Barnstable, [males of color], [females of color] &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;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Mashpee, Herring Pond &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: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: petitioning, John Fisk, Lemuel Owen, Benjamin Burgess, Herring Pond Indians, Sandwich, Barnstable county, Mashpee, proprietors, property, economy, restraints, infringements, freedom, civil liberty, noble and patriotic exertion, liberal and enlightened philanthropy, Revolutionary War, military service, declaration of Independence, Great Britain, Europe, anticipations blasted, acts, masters, strangers, Indian guardians, Barnstable county, minors, remonstrance, constitution, 5 overseers, 7 total, secretary, treasurer, constable, extra agent, wood, Herring River, funds, expenses, distance, appointment, poor, resources, trustees, James Freeman, [documents need conservation; many additional documents in folder, including list of 357 inhabitants of color in Mashpee; very important petition text], [includes notes next to signatures, such as "no proprietor"], ["How could we conceive it possible that a people who were exhibiting such illustrious proofs of their attachment to freedom & so enlarged ideas of civil liberty and of the orig and design of government, that they should not respect those rights in others which they contended for themselves?"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1807, c.109, passed March 9, 1808 &lt;/p&gt;