DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ceaf5l
title: Petition of Pain Mayhew

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:28548119"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548119&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1755-02-13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Martha's Vineyard &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pain Mayhew&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Hunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Sumner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1755-04-23,1755-06-14,1755-06-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and sent in the Council on April 23, 1755 and received and read and granted in the House on June 14, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 16, 1755 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, sent, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Wee the Gaurdians of the Indians on Marthas Vinyard &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: Aquinnah &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 archivist notes: Indian guardians, Gayhead, Gay Head, Christiantown, Chappaquiddick, Shancatacket, accounts, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, supplies, poor, money, witnesses, payments, fees, plowing, lands, agriculture, pasture, animals, creatures, fences, feed, stock, rent, tillage ground, exchange, beach, meadow, debts, laws, petitioning, Chilmark, John Tasker, Moses Marcy, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Benjamin Newhall, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, [names from accounts: Dorcas Amos, Barbary, Barnabus, Martha Barnabus, Bethiah, Mahittable Box, Moses Cheeks, Richard Cheeks, Sarah Ekeil, children of Elisha, Caleb Elisha, Bethiah Esau, Abel George, Naomy George, Joyce Gershom, Elise Harry, Joseph Harry, Hester, heirs of Abel Homit, Bersheba Homit, Deborah Homit, Isaac Homit, Judah Homit, Laban Homit, Sollomon Homit, Mercy Isaac, Old Jacob, Joseph Joel, Sarah Joel, Mary Noah, Obediah, Jerusha Ommo, Joseph Panue, Sarah Panue, Sarah Paul, Old Peter, Phillip, Mary Phillip, Bethiah Pomit, Hester Pomit, Josiah Pomit, Mary Quanto, Jo Queppy, Rehannit, Noah Resang, Elizabeth Skipper, Jeremy Suomog, James Talman, T. Tichure?, Thomas Toquenit, Lyddia Untiquot, Matthew Untiquot, Samuel Cobb], [additional documents in volumes, see pages 600-601] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 597-599 &lt;/p&gt;