DOI: 10.7910/dvn/1zrjnp
title: Petition of Gideon Nautumpum

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:12231224"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231224&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;Gideon Nautumpum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deliverance Nautumpum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Pognet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Quibish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellezebeth Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Marston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Marston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Amous&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Barsheba Richard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joannah Cowet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wickhams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Downs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Speen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lois Gould&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lelia Badcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Holden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elisha Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Ralph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Amey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsey Spywood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Green&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Peppner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Juby Sever&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Job Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Genny Dodge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 78.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 45 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 7 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indian proprietors and inhabitants of the plantation of Marshpee in the county of Barnstable, [males of color], [females of color], ["Mashpee Indians"] &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: Reverend, Gideon Hawley, Mashpee, rights, freemen, regulation, board of overseers, law, acts, debts, religious instruction, support, school, education, teacher, poor, wood, leasing, lands, speculators, funds, constitution, meeting, secretary, agent, Herring River, appointment, preservation of fish, Indian guardians, treasurer, accounts &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;