DOI: 10.7910/dvn/blcnnk
title: Petition of Solomon Attaquin

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481287"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481287&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1844-02 &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: Josiah Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on claims &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel B. Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oaks A. Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William James&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Divers Quippish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Pells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Franklin Pompey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles De Grass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Mills&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Simon Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-26,1844-02-27 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 26, 1844 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 27, 1844 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 30.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 30.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: proprietors of Marshpee, district clerk, selectmen of Marshpee, [males of color], ["others"] &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: Oliver Foller, remonstrate, remonstrance, selectmen, commissioner, district, lands, 1842 act, his progenitors came to Marshpee from some other part of the globe, not a proprietor of lineal descent, lived or resided, ancestors, 1834, 1787, deeds, no legal conveyance, vote, right of his wife, she being a proprietor, common lands, applications &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1844, c.104, passed March 16, 1844 &lt;/p&gt;