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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548440

Date of creation: 1782-01-16

Petition location: Plymouth

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

Selected signatures:

1. Desire Jeffry
2. Hester Jack

Actions taken on dates: 1782-02-09,1782-02-15

Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on February 9, 1782 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred and amended in the Senate on February 15, 1782 and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 2

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

Females of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: Indian women, [females 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: Desire Jeffrey, Desire Jeffery, Herring Pond, to sell lands, sale, Indian guardians, boundaries, Fresh Pond, Thomas Withrel, Thomas Witherell, husbands, widows, improvements, rent, debts, witnesses, deeds, Sandwich, John Bartlett, John Bartlett Jr., Stephen Nye, Ephraim Ellis, Seth Freeman, Nathaniel Gorham, Washburn, Robbins, Samuel Adams, includes affidavits, certifications

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 187, pages 287-289