DOI: 10.7910/dvn/wyn0oi
title: Petition of Ebenezer Attaquin

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Minister and meeting house &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148870"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148870&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1839-03-01 &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: Seth Whitmarsh, Bristol; several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Nash&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ezra Attaquin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Skiper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Timothy Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Attaquin Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Degrasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sampson Alvis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nicholas Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Young&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Tobias&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Simons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gardner Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Apells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eben Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oaks A. Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Ganes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spencer Edwards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Job Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Tobias Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony Hinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Holland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[George Coneray?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gideon Tompom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Queppish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1839-03-07,1839-03-07,1839-03-21,1839-03-21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 7, 1839 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 7, 1839 and concurred and recommitted in the Senate on March 21, 1839 and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 21, 1839 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 43.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, recommitted, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 43 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: proprieters, inhabitents, [males of color], ["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;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, religious, petition of Reverend Phineas Fish, funds, repair, money, worship, minister of our own choice, Reverend E.G. Perry, missionary, two school houses, sabbath, distance, sabbath schools, bible classes, used almost exclusively by the whites, petitioning, ["We have known women to walk from three to six miles distant and then not be able to get into the house when they arrived."] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10477 &lt;/p&gt;