DOI: 10.7910/dvn/hsl0wv
title: Petition of Peter Pohquunnuppeet

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548060"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548060&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1752-05-27 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Stockbridge &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;Peter Pohquunnuppeet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Kaukewenohnaunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jehoiakim Youcun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Issac Wnaumpey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paul Waumpeetkhaww&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Woohkhquauhekummeeg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Muttuhkummun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Pohpunnehhannowuk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Naunaunekunnuk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adam Wautaakummeet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maukhhouwauweet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Waumohhewg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1752-06-02,1752-06-02,1752-06-04,1752-06-05 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 2, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 2, 1752 and reported and received and read and sent in the Council and received and read and granted in the House on June 4, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 5, 1752 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, sent, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: us the subscribers inhabitants of Stockbridge, the original proprietors and owners of lands lying on the western borders of this province, in the name and on the behalf of the other owners, [males 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;Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee &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: compensation, lands, English, Becket, Blandford, Concord, Framingham, Hampshire county, appointments, John Konkapot, Josiah Willard, Joseph Wilder, John Worthington, Samuel Witt, Samuel Watts, John Tyng, Joseph Pynchon, Eleazar Porter, Oliver Partridge, Andrew Oliver, John Chandler, James Allen, Spencer Phipps, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 262-263 &lt;/p&gt;