DOI: 10.7910/dvn/zvwaee
title: Petition of Nathan Pocknet

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian minister &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481280"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481280&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1834-01-01 &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: Nathaniel Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on the Mashpee Indians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesse Webquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elijah Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prudence Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alice Quippish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Narcissa Pocknot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitable Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Tayler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Morey Tayler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naomi Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wickhams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drusilla Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercy Odiorne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvia Casco&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Speen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Moses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quam Hazard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethiah Hazard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-24,1834-01-29,1834-01-30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1834 and laid on the table and received in the House on January 29, 1834 and referred to the committee on the Mashpee Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 30, 1834 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 52.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on table, received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 31.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 19.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 2.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: proprietors and inhabitants of the plantation of Marshpee, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry Marshpee 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: Mashpee, [William Apes], Apes a Pequot Indian, Reverend Phineas Fish, religious, repeal, law, regulation, government, family, lands, minister, salary, Harvard University, board of overseers, appointment, contracts, sale, wood, support, report, followers, warrant, indicted, grand jury, Barnstable county, convicted, jury, riot, mischief, Indian guardians, dismissal, removal, property, remonstrate, remonstrance, resources, management, poor, sick, attendance, bills, medicine, schools, school houses, debts, act, committee, agent, includes notes next to signatures, [many additional documents in folder] &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;