DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ykdnps
title: Petition of Nathan Pocknet

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Concerning property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208741"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208741&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1837-01-28 &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: Elijah Swift, Falmouth; Cotuit, Ms.; several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesse Wepquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nicholas Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Juba Severs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Lewis Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Keeter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gardner Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wickhams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Degrasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Hazard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gideon Natompom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1837-02-17,1837-02-17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 17, 1837 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 17, 1837 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: signers, proprietors, [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: Mashpee, suffering among the poor, neglect, shameful, condition, clothes, provisions, meadows, lands, fences, cattle, hay, wasted, proprietors, commons, occupied by selectmen, wood, property, taken away, deprived, towns poor, hired out, income, no public advantage, Herring River, no public profit, fish to spoil, market, spending much money in law suits, standing lawyer, law, fire wood, lumber, wood carters, nothing gets into treasury, money, Indian guardians, ["…your honours have been told a great many fine stories, but we wish to set things right, and to make our complaint concernsing the Marshpee affairs."], ["It used to be said we were oppressed, some of used to think so, but it is a sorrowful truth, things are worse than ever and we have never known wat hardship is till now..."], [includes notes next to signatures, marks, whether signatures on previous petitions, petitioning] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1837, Docket 10176 &lt;/p&gt;