DOI: 10.7910/dvn/asob0x
title: Petition of Sackrus Pohpumunnit

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:28548086"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548086&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1753 &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;Sackrus Pohpumunnit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Natompam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Pognut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaak Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;His Siros Tompom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Weppukqush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Pohpummunnit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matias Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaak Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaak Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jakob Peter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Danel Sogkauwasinnin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tim Rit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naton Pgnit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Micah Tompam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Pumnont&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacop Natmpam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Joseph Wepquish]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wepqush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Sonkasun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Danin Seonkaunnun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah Wepqush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josias Peter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuen Riggog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1753-12-10,1753-12-10,1753-12-11,1753-12-28,1753-12-29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on December 10, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred with amendment in the House on December 10, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 11, 1753 and received and read and committed in the Council on December 28, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 29, 1753 and sent for concurrence &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, sent &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: the Indian proprietors of Mashpee so called in the County of Barnstable, [males of color] &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 archivist notes: lands, meadows, Sachems Tooconchason, Wepquish, deeds, poor, war, military service, widows, children, English, removal of Indian guardians, wood, lumber, resources, houses, buildings, corn, clothing, taverns, alcohol, liquor, fighting, planted, sowed, hay, fields, agriculture, accounts, money, language, translation, Timothy Wright, Joseph Williams, Josiah Willard, Samuel Watts, William Shirley, Eleazar Porter, Spencer Phipps, James Otis, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, Joseph Buckminster, Gamaliel Bradford, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 424-428, 445-447, 449-452] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 424-426a &lt;/p&gt;