DOI: 10.7910/dvn/rggo6r
title: Petition of Israel Amos

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Various grievances of Mashpee Indians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481281"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481281&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Mashpee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Israel Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Hush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abner Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethuel Apes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Apes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Wilber&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Degrass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oaks A. Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Crook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Canada&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Mye&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Tobias&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Speen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wickham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sampson Alvis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thaddeus Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ephraim Jewett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lein Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Persis Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Desire Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ofeliea Cezar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Apes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joanah Cowett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amy Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thankful Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margery Garner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susannah HInson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mora Megnegro&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthew Peter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Olive Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christina Degrass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Desire Simons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matilda Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Canada&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bashsheba Burt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Ceptem&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Crook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthew Summons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Hush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsey Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diademia Tobia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebeccah Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethiah Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Foller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Cesar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Simons Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oliver Sepitt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Mies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Townsend&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Antona Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Quippish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Watron Freeman?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Dodge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Wallace&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Giblert Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Austin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Burt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Cuff&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Need&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Miah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Moody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Libit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Mannassah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spencer Edwards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Timothy West&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Amy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Fowler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Pells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Fowler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Gibbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Jerrett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Julia Ann Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Austin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsey Cowett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mahalee Reed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susannah Miah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phebe Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leah Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dianah Wickum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dorkas Weebquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sefronah Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mariah Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dianah Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eunice Pocknett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Marston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Hush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah SquibJane Wamsley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mariah Browne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 287.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 129.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 158.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: proprietors and inhabitants of the Marshpee Plantation, signed by 79 males and 92 females on the plantation, and in behalf of 79 males and 37 females who are absent and will not return to live under the present laws, in all 287, A voice from the Marshpee Indians, The Marshpee Tribe, The Marshpee Indians and witnesses to the above, names males, names females, [males of color], [females of color], ["proprietors and inhabitants of the Marshpee Plantation"] &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 &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: Mashpee, William Apess, property, abolition of ownership, incorporation, Cherokees, Phineas Fish, Reverend, minister, overseers, preacher, Indian guardians, municipal code of laws, appointment, magistrates, repeal of the existing laws, guardianship, exception of the law preventing them from selling their lands, sale, redress of grievances, representative, oppression, lands, liberties, prejudices, sighing and weeping under bondage, degredation, sorrow and disgrace, complaints, common courts, Christian philanthropist, poor and insignificant creatures, instrut, citizens, state of cultivation, divided, drinking, alcohol, liquor, meeting, souls, royal or real native blood, church and society, removal, justice, Bill of Complaints, statement, original proprietors of the soil, whose laws has ground us to the dust, government, unconstitutional, constitution, law, fathers, equalized and respected, rights, treachery, hereditary government, change, worship, funds, two ministerial farms, Gideon Hawley, expenses, meeting house, school houses, meetings, debating, societies, worship, sabbath, widows, children, bread, borders, highway robbers, thieves, prison, sea, women, fishery, fishing, Mr. Warner, district attorney, homes, roads, wood, poor, ship timber, cedar swamps, sale, fences, commons, taxation, meadows, cow, hay, shares, cattle, livestock, auction, farming, hunting, teachers, clothing, suit of coarse factory cloth, shingles, boards, houses, doctor, income, services, swindle, debts, credit, dissatisfaction, temporal, sober, industrious, charges, wronged out of thousands and tens of thousands of dollars, trades, business, merchantable, seafaring, navigation, globe, sachem fathers, attorney, municipal regulations, murdering us by inches, [includes notes, "presented by - the above not to be presented", includes lengthy notes next to signatures, men at sea, some refusing to return], [many additional documents in folder], ["...we think we have been in slavery long enough..."], ["...our fathers fought, bleed, and died for the liberties of their now weeping and suffering children, the same as did your fathers for their children...Oh white man white man the blood of our fathers spilt in the Revolutionary War cries from the ground of our native soil and broke the chains of oppression and let our children go free..."] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1834, c.166, passed March 31, 1834 &lt;/p&gt;