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Petition subject: Courts

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831155

Date of creation: 1750

Petition location: Harwich

Selected signatures:

1. Seth Winslow

Actions taken on dates: 1750-04-25

Legislative action: Received on April 25, 1750

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: one of his Majesties Coronors of sd County, Kenelm Winslow attor to the petitioner

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: coroner, Barnstable, 1749, inquisition, John Twining an Indian man, courts, compensation, constable, 18 jury men, trials, accounts, John Sturgis

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 282, pages 132c-132d