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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28539230

Date of creation: 1783-01

Petition location: Plymouth

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

Selected signatures:

1. Ephraim Ellis

Actions taken on dates: 1783-06-04,1783-06-05

Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the Senate on June 4, 1783 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 5, 1783

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: missionary to the Indians at Herring Pond in Plymouth

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: Herring Pond, sale, lands, missionary, minister, Boston, London, England, Great Britain, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, bills, 1779, salary, debts, Revolutionary War, religious, Plymouth, Plimouth, deeds, Seth Freeman, meeting house, houses, wood, fires, preaching, Protestant teacher, schools, education, Barnstable county, judge of probate, [Micah Seepat, Micah Sepet, Micah Sepit, Micah Cepit, Micah Cepet?], John Bartlett, court house, sea shore, woods, Indian commons, Sandwich, 1782, Eleazar Ellis, Eleazer Ellis, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Tristram Dalton, Goodman, Freeman

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 239, pages 514-518