DOI: 10.7910/dvn/cqdzhw
title: Petition of Joseph Pomet

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:28548242"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548242&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1767-03-23 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Gay Head &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;Joseph Pomet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Maqua&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Gorge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigal Maqua&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Panue Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Joel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Bameser&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Semes Joel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naomi Gorge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Ohkah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silos Jonson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tabida Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ester Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Els Harry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Old Barbary&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silas Paul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Sowomog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethiah Tauknut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience David&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Judath Tauknut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bersheba Joel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naomi Joel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Quape&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1767-06-02,1767-06-02,1767-06-03,1767-06-03 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 2, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 2, 1767 and reported to serve a copy of the petition and received and read and granted in the Council on June 3, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 3, 1767 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 23 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indians of the Gay head in Dukes County, [males of color], [females 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;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Aquinnah &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: Gayhead, Gay Head, Indian guardians, appointments, sale, lands, fences, animals, agriculture, James Ahearn, James Ahern, James Athearn, Dukes County, lumber, Francis Bernard, William Brattle, John Cotton, Thomas Cushing, Timothy Danielson, Josiah Edson, Lane, Thomas Hubbard, Andrew Oliver &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 416-417 &lt;/p&gt;