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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855843

Date of creation: 1737-11

Petition location: Barnstable

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

Selected signatures:

1. Zaccheus Wickett
2. Jabez Wickett
3. Mary Natumpum
4. Esther Tarros
5. Robin Wickett
6. Gideon Natumpum
7. Moses Wickett
8. Esther Wompas
9. Benjamin Wickett

Actions taken on dates: 1737-12-13,1737-12-20,1737-12-24,1737-12-27

Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on December 13, 1737 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 20, 1737 and reported to serve a copy of the petition and referred to the next session and received and read and accepted in the Council on December 24, 1737 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on [December 27, 1737]

Total signatures: 9

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

Females of color signatures: 3

Males of color signatures: 6

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: all Indians & some of Marshbee inhabitants owners of Oyster Island in Barnstable in the county of Barnstable, [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: Mashpee, heirs, legal representatives, Simon Wicket, Simon Wickett, to sell island to heirs of Daniel Parker, sale, late attorney, to satisfy debts incurred while defending their title to the lands, court cases, inferior court of county pleas, law suits, Poponnett, Potnumeket, Potnument, James Richards, Eastham, Middleborough, Plymouth county, trials, 1725, lumber, Titicut, 1735, committee, deeds, Seth Williams, Stephen Skiffe, John Russell, John Quincy, Daniel Parker, William Paine, Shubael Gorham, Simon Frost, Melatiah Bourne, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 225-226]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 214-216a