DOI: 10.7910/dvn/zfifah
title: Petition of Phineas Fish

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:13481279"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481279&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1834-01-28 &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: Committee on the Mashpee Indians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phineas Fish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-30,1834-01-30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 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: 1.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: missionary, memorialist &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, Indian guardians, Reverend, Gideon Hawley, religious affairs, preach, Congregational meeting house, 1809, appointment, corporation, Harvard College, 1811, overseers, committee, publicly ordained, ordination, Congregational preacher, sabbath, lectures, sick, dying, attendance, house, ministry, church fellowship, 20 persons of colour and 16 others, schools, education, building, school houses, books, expenses, donations, bible class, sabbath school, juvenile library, 350 volumes, without their consent, accusations, board of Marshpee Overseers, the corporation of Harvard College, Baptist society, Methodist society, church, worship, parsonage privileges, denominations, funds, exclusion, repair, white missionary society, white legislature of the state, royal or real native blood, deacon, Baptism, stranger, foreign, separation, Roman government, primitive church, adventurer, language, voice from Marshpee, income, family, hoards, plot of gorund, lands, possessions, administration of civil affairs, regulations, justice, crime, prison, imprisonment, resistance of the laws, citizens, petitioning, appointment, "He courts investigation," [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;