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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448017

Date of creation: 1787-10

Petition location: Grafton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Aaron

Legislative action: Concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Concurred

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indian Native of the town of Grafton, descendant of one of the ancient proprietors of Assnnimisco now Grafton, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Hassanamisco tribe, sale, lands, meadow land, upland, payment, debts, trustees, Indian guardians, certification, Edward Rawson, Willis Hall

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1787, c.2, passed October 19, 1787

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.