DOI: 10.7910/dvn/rkiqfl
title: Petition of Aaron Sonkewenaukheek

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548037"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548037&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1750-09-26 &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;Aaron Sonkewenaukheek&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Pophnehonnauwoh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Naunauneekkaunuck&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Waunaupaugus&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jehoiakim Yocon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Wokcokeekcomeek&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Kohkewenaunote&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Wohnaumpe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1750-09-27,1750-09-27,1750-10-02,1750-10-03 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on September 27, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on September 27, 1750 and received and read and committed in the Council on October 2, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on October 3, 1750 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 8 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 8 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: all of Stockbridge in the county of Hampshire in behalf of ourselves and the Indians proprietors of the town of sd Stockbridge, [males of color], ["Stockbridge 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;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: meeting house, buildings, religious, education, schools, lands, Colonel Ephraim Williams, English, John Sergeant, fences, plowing, grass seed, sow, farming, agriculture, hunting, husbandry, timber, wood, Sheffield, mills, stream, water, house, survey, John Pophnehonauwoh, David Naunauneekaunuck, Benjamin Kohkewenaunaut, Benjamin Kaukewenohnaunt, John Konkapot, Timothy Woodbridge, Jacob Wendell, Chambers Russell, John Pynchon, Spencer Phipps, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Ephraim Jones, Thomas Hubbard, Samuel Holbrook, John Ephraim, Timothy Dwight, Thomas Clapp, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 61-64, 71-73, 76-78] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 61-64 &lt;/p&gt;