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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548135

Date of creation: 1755-12-11

Petition location: Pembroke

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

Selected signatures:

1. Patience Thomas
2. Abigail Quason
3. Caleb Brand

Actions taken on dates: 1755-12-26,1755-12-26,1755-12-26,1755-12-26

Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on December 26, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 26, 1755 and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on December 26, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 26, 1755

Total signatures: 3

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

Females of color signatures: 2

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Sachemis Grandaughter of Josias Wampetuck and sole heir of said Josias the Sachem of Mattekesett so called now in the Township of Pembroke, the only child & heir of said Patience, the son and only surviving child of said Abigal, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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: Mattakeset, Mattakeeset, Mattakeesett, Mattakeesit, petitioning, lands, deeds, leases, rents, Indian guardians, Boston, Bridgewater, Sachems, Josiah Wompatuck, Josiah Wampatuck, Joseph Josselyn, Henry Josselyn, Josiah Willard, Francis Whipple, Spencer Phipps, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, John Chandler, Joseph Buckminster, Gamaliel Bradford, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 609-610, 624-625, 675-676, 696-698]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 696-698