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Petition subject: Marriage

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855840

Date of creation: 1733-08

Petition location: Eastham

Selected signatures:

1. Joshua Ralph

Total signatures: 1

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Esqr Indian justice in behalf of his son Joshua Ralph Junr late of Eastham aforsd whale fisherman, [males of color]

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: permission for his son Joshua Ralph Jr. to marry Rachel Francis, supposed widow of Francis Francis Jr., perished in storm during whaling expedition with Ebenezer Paine, sloop, Boston, Cape Cod, shipwrecks, marriages, justices of the peace, attorney, minister, clergy, religious, Barnstable county, esquire, lawyer, Jonathan Belcher

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 181-182