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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548126

Date of creation: 1755-05-28

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Job Auhaughton

Actions taken on dates: 1755-06-05,1755-06-06

Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on June 5, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 6, 1755

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indian man, [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: Job Ahaton, Job Ahauton, sale, to sell lands, Titicut, Stoughton, Ponkapoag, grandmother, support, Indian guardians, debts, Stephen David, Boston, Taunton, Nathaniel Smith, William Shirley, John Quincy, Benjamin Newhall, Thomas Hubbard, Daniel Howard, Josiah Edson Jr., Thomas Clark, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see v.31, pages 394-395, 465, 659-660a and v.32, pages 489-490, 527-528, 622-623 and v.33, pages 468-469]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 622-623