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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548270

Date of creation: 1772-01-06

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Lydia Sqiunn

Actions taken on dates: 1772-04-14,1772-04-15

Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on April 14, 1772 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 15, 1772

Total signatures: 1

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

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: Lydia Speen, Lydia Squeen, sale, lands, debts, John Frye, yeoman, Plymouth, Indian guardians, Benjamin White, Daniel Thurston, Nathaniel Smith, Thomas Hutchinson, John Hancock, George Godfrey, Thomas Flucker, Josiah Edson, includes affidavits, certifications

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 541-542