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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855950

Date of creation: 1748-05-25

Petition location: Eastham

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Knowles

Actions taken on dates: 1748-06-02,1748-06-02

Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 2, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 2, 1748

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in the behalf of Patience Addams of sd Towne Indian woman

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Native American tribe: Mashpee

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.

Additional archivist notes: Patience Adams, Patience Adam, Indian widow, wages, husband, Joseph Addams, Joseph Adams, Joseph Adam, killed under Captain Jabez Bradbury's command at the Eastward, Eastern, letters of administration, military service, veterans, soldiers, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Hutchinson

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 581