DOI: 10.7910/dvn/cdmql6
title: Petition of Nathan Pocknet

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:13448105"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448105&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &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: Nathaniel Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on the Mashpee Indians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathan Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesse Webquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Israel Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eben Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Azubah Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Moses&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Job Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peace Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Drusilla Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deliverance Tumpum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wickhams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Wickhams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Juba Seaver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abiah Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naomi Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitable Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Squib&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Bash Richards?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercy Odiorne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bash Casco&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Speen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quam Hazard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Simon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Narcissa Pocknot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prince Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitable West&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Wilbur&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Pocknet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-29,1834-01-30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 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: 36.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 15 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and proprietors of the plantation of Mashpee, heads of families and individuals, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry 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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, Indian guardians, 27 heads of families and 6 others, in support of Phineas Fish, pastor, removal, teacher, Reverend, meeting house, religious, includes notes next to signatures, [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;