Petition of Gideon Hawley

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208691">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208691</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1789-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gideon Hawley</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: missionary, in behalf of the Indian proprietors of the plantation called Marshpee in the County of Barnstable </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: John Percival, Mashpee, Cotton Tufts, Daniel Davis, judge, Thomas Smith, certificate, Job Tobey, Isaac Wickam, religious, Barnstable county, Boston, act, support of the gospel, lands, resources, funds, overseers, appointments, correspondence, remonstrance, petitioning, liquor, alcohol, meeting, minors, negro, trespassers, gone to sea on a foreign voyage, non-proprietors, black fellows, sacred scriptures, Christian religion [additional documents include letter from John Percival and resignation of Reuben Fish and power of Indians given to James Percival with many signatures next to red wax] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1788, c.38, passed January 30, 1789 </p>