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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548681

Date of creation: 1741-07-24

Petition location: North Yarmouth

Selected signatures:

1. Ammi Ruhamah Cutter

Total signatures: 1

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Inhabitants of North Yarmouth To the Petition of Adam Winthrop Esqr & Others Stiling Themselves Proprietors of Sebescodegan Islands near Brunswick of March the 26th 1741, In Behalf of the Respondts

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: Sebascodegan Islands, Maine, Eastern, Brunswick, Adam Winthrop, lands, North Yarmouth, boundaries, salt river, gutt, ship channel, 1731, 1737, 1740, deeds, Androscoggin River, Casco Bay, Kennebec River, Maquoit, Merriconeag Neck, Yarmouth, New Damariscove, Norridgewock, Small Point, New Capeborowaggin, Great Whale Boat Island, floats, canoes, taxation, meeting house, minister, frontier, town incorporation, Werumbee, Warumbee, Worumbo, Robin Hood, Rawandagon, [Abenaki], Richard Jacques, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 528-531, 588-589a, 654-656]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 114, pages 650-652