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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448033

Date of creation: 1829-01-17

Petition location: East Bridgewater

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Artemas Hale, Bridgewater; committee on probate and chancery

Selected signatures:

1. Azor Harris

Actions taken on dates: 1829-01-23

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 23, 1829 and committed to the committee on probate and chancery

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, committed

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: guardian to Anna Richards wife of Prince Richards a native of the Pembroke tribe of Indians

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Anna Richards, Prince Richards, Pembroke tribe, list of claims against estate, resolve, in her own right, debts, sale, lands, Galen Latham, Doctor Nathaniel and Cyrus Morton, Captain Abisha Stetson, Town of Bridgewater, Cushing Mitchell, Lewis Keith, Benjamin Pope, Seth Pratt, Melzer Hudson, William Mitchell, Thomas Parris, Azor Harris, Doctor Hector Orr, William Harris Jr., incidental charges, oath of statement, Welcome Young, justice of the peace

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1828, c.28, passed January 27, 1829

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.