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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548138

Date of creation: 1756-03

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Nelson Finney

Actions taken on dates: 1756-04-17,1756-04-17

Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on April 17, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 17, 1756

Total signatures: 1

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

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: 1754, care of Matthias George, Ponkapoag, sickness, allowance, Benjamin Newhall, Boston, Stoughton, Milton, medical care, Indian guardians, accounts, Robert Spurr, Ebenezer Sprout, William Shirley, Samuel Niles, Colonel Samuel Miller, Mr. Merrill, Thomas Hubbard, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 499-500, 630-631, 706-707]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 706-707a