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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548175

Date of creation: 1758-09-05

Petition location: Mashpee

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

Selected signatures:

1. Issac Wobmipam
2. Syas Peter
3. Jacob Natumpon
4. Sias Paupnunnet
5. Micah Tumpon
6. Joseph Soncoison
7. Jacob Keter

Actions taken on dates: 1759-01-10,1759-01-15

Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on January 10, 1759 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 15, 1759

Total signatures: 7

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

Males of color signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in the Name and behalf of the rest of the Indian proprietors of Mashpee, at a Meeting of the Proprietors legally called, [males of color], ["Mashpee Indians"]

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: deeds, lands, pastor, minister, Reverend Gideon Hawley, house lot, improvements, salt marsh, fire wood, Society for Propagation of the Gospel, London, England, New England, religious, Indian guardians, Silvanus Bourne, Edward Bacon, Nathaniel Stone, Timothy Ruggles, Thomas Pownall, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Hubbard, Roland Cotton, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 84-85]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 67-69a