DOI: 10.7910/dvn/axoggu
title: Petition of Joseph Panue

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855960"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855960&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1749-09-05 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Gay Head &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Panue&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jude Hossveit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ephraim Abram&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Souwamog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jemes Tallmon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Akoochik&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Hossveit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Labon Hossveit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Barapus Isaac&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Paul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah Kesuk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthew Ontukque&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pilat Souwamog&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philip Wossonan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Joel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Akoochik&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Tohqun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Elisha&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Allmik&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elis Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Qunish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ezther Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Markit Cottoote&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Paul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethiah Pomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ledey Ontukque&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Darcus Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bettey Ekill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zachariah Hossveit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1749-12-12,1749-12-12,1750-04-17,1750-04-18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and ordered for Indian guardians to lay an account of transactions before the court in the House on December 12, 1749 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 12, 1749 and received and read and dismissed in the Council on April 17, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 18, 1750 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 32 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, dismissed, 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: 22 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: The Poor Indian Proprietors of Gayhead, [males of color], [females of color], ["Gay Head proprietors"] &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: English, pastures, fields, pasture, gardens, meadows, agriculture, lands, leasing, Indian guardians withholding money, King George, food, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, proprietors, translation, written in Gay Head language, Ephraim Abraham, Spencer Phipps, Samuel Holbrook, Joseph Dwight, Roland Cotton, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 643-645] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 643-644 &lt;/p&gt;