DOI: 10.7910/dvn/qtaese
title: Petition of Moses Pocknet

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:12208680"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208680&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;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 Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Quippish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Richard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Richard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Ned&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Juba Severs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Sippo Allin?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Raymond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Badcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Mie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Badcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Womsley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Henson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Holden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Womsley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Squibb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Horten&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Dates&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Baker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jube Freebody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cuff Swift&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deliverance Tompom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Experience Swift&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Moses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cezer Cobb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cezer Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Richard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Ame&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercy Ralph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Hammond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Babcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Holden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Pollard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Hatch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 70.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 27 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 37 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 6 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of colour of the district of Marshpee, [males of color], [females of color], [minors] &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: remonstrance, overseers, pastor, Reverend, law, freedom, temporal lord and master, Revolutionary War, proprietors, rights, Ebenezer Bacon, Nathaniel Freeman, [folder includes lengthy address of Gideon Hawley and response by Nathaniel Freeman on behalf of the Indians], Mashpee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1795, c.20, passed June 11, 1795 &lt;/p&gt;