DOI: 10.7910/dvn/dqjgs9
title: Petition of Oaks A. Combs

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448947"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448947&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1847-01-25 &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: Thomas B. Lewis, Barnstable; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oaks A. Combs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Mills&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Apells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Degrasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Myers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Wepquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthias Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Timothy Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rowland G. Coleman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Foller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Divers Quippish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gandner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Alven Manings?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Godfrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Lisbon Josomson?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Tobias&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Cesar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 29.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 29.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: proprietors and colored inhabitants of the district of Marshpee in Massachusetts, [males of color], ["Indians of 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: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, Oaks A. Coombs, privileges of killing seafowl in the harbors, bays, ponds, rivers, Falmouth, injured by the habit of many persons chasing said fowl in boats early in the season before they become habituated to said bays and ponds for the winter, driven from their haunts, only allowed to shoot them from stands on the beaches where they fly over, law, Waquoit Bay &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1847, Docket 12024 &lt;/p&gt;