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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548097

Date of creation: 1753-12-11

Petition location: Mashpee

Selected signatures:

1. Sylvanus Bourn
2. James Otis

Actions taken on dates: 1753-12-28

Legislative action: Received on December 28, 1753

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: others, guardians to the 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: answer, Silvanus Bourne, Indian guardians, proprietors, lands, meadows, clothing, agriculture, accounts, English, corn, husbandry, upland, hay, stock, food, supplies, house, buildings, goal, prisons, jails, improvements, wood, taverns, liquor, alcohol, fishing, William Shirley, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 424-430, 445-447, 449-452]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 449-451