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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548458

Date of creation: 1783-03-15

Petition location: Bridgewater

Selected signatures:

1. Deborah James

Total signatures: 1

Females of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: Indian woman, [females 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: sale, lands, Plymouth county, husband, Samuel James, military service, soldiers, veterans, Cambridge, 1775, debts, widow, Indian guardians, Jonathan Turner, David Kingman, includes affidavits, certifications

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 188, page 274