DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v8ewlw
title: Petition of Peter Job

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:28548140"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548140&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1756-04-06 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Pembroke &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 Job&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Nedd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Quicksen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Quicksen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amy Job&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Daniel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercy Nowott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rachel Whood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercy Jeffry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Chessounk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Wampy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jerusha Daniel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1756-04-13,1756-04-15,1756-07-08,1756-08-19,1756-08-19,1756-08-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on April 13, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 15, 1756 and received and read and revived and referred to the next session in the Council on July 8, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and revived and committed in the House on August 19, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on August 19, 1756 and reported and received and read and dismissed in the Council on August 25, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on August 26, 1756 &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, received, read, revived, referred, sent, received, read, revived, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, 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: 2 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: alias Wampy, & for her husband, some of the poor Indians of Mattakesett in Pembroke in the County of Plimouth, [males of color], [females of color], ["Mattakeset Indians"] &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 archivist notes: Mattakeeset, Mattakeesit, Mary Wampy, counter-petition, Patience Thomas, Caleb Brand, Abigail Quason, Abigail Osgood, lands, reserved, reservations, houses, buildings, improvements, planted, orchards, agriculture, Sachems, husbands, appointments, Indian guardians, 1754, English, leases, rent, roads, Henry Joslin, Henry Josselyn, Henry Monro, Henry Munroe, Joseph Joslin, Joseph Josselyn, sale, Wampys, [Wamp- Sachems?], courts, military service, soldiers, veterans, war, birth right, dismissed, petitioning, Boston, Plymouth county, Isaac Little, Samuel Heath, Mr. Barrow, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, William Richardson, Samuel Miller, Benjamin Lincoln, Thomas Hubbard, Henry Gibbs, John Cushing, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 710-715a] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 710-711 &lt;/p&gt;