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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855819

Date of creation: 1710-05-31

Petition location: Mashpee

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

Selected signatures:

1. Simon Popmonet
2. Joseph Peter

Actions taken on dates: 1710-06-03,1710-06-07

Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on June 3, 1710 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 7, 1710

Total signatures: 2

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

Males of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in behalf of themselves and other inhabitants of the Indian Towne of Mashpah in the county of Barnstable, the sd inhabitants of Mashpah or Southsea, [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: Simon Popmonut, [Simon Popmond?], [Simon Pocknett?], lands, boundaries, appropriated, encroachments, houses, Ashumet Pond, Barnstable, Mashpah, South Sea, Southsea, Mashpee, Oyster Island, Plymouth, Plimouth, Sandwich, Santuit Pond, Waquoit River, lands, boundaries, Sachems, Wepukquish, Wepquish, Weepquish, Tookonchasun, Tookenchosen, Isaac Winslow, James Warren, Nathaniel Thomas, Samuel Thaxter, John Clark, Isaac Addington, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 68-71]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 68-69