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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548102

Date of creation: 1754-03-27

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Stephen David

Actions taken on dates: 1754-04-05,1754-04-05

Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and granted in the House on April 5, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 5, 1754

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indian man of Teticot in Middleborough in the County of Plimouth, [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: Titicut, deeds, confirmation, lands, Elkanah Leonard, non compos, heirs, Boston, Indian guardians, William Shirley, Nathaniel Russell, Ezra Richmond, Zebulon Leonard, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, Gamaliel Bradford, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 491-492, 498-498a, 510-510a]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 491-492