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Petition subject: Resources

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548289

Date of creation: 1773

Petition location: Harwich

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

Selected signatures:

1. Micah Ralph

Actions taken on dates: 1773-06-09,1773-06-09,1774-02-08,1774-02-08,1774-02-08

Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on June 9, 1773 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 9, 1773 and received and read and committed in the Council on February 8, 1774 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred and amended in the House on February 8, 1774 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 8, 1774

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a poor Indian man of Harwich in the county of Barnstable labourer, [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: laborer, wife Hosea Ralph, granddaughter and only heir of Joshua Jethro, 1696, deeds, wood, fences, Quasson, Quason, Joseph Quason, John Quason, house, buildings, English, proprietors, inheritance, boundaries, courts, Thomas Hutchinson, Samuel Holton, Thomas Flucker, Joseph Doane, Thomas Cushing, John Cotton, William Brattle, Nathaniel Bailey, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 616-626]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 622-623