ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548691

Date of creation: 1741-02-14

Petition location: Middleborough

Selected signatures:

1. John Weston
2. Benjamin White Jr.
3. Ichabod Tupper
4. Samuel Pratt
5. Thomas Darling
6. Francis Eaton
7. Elkanah Leonard
8. Jacob Thompson

Total signatures: 53

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Inhabitants of the northwesterly part of the Easterly Precinct in said Town, moderator, town clerk

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: Plymouth county, boundaries, town incorporation, meeting house, town meeting, Samuel Thomas, schools, education, Bridgewater river, Nemasket River, Taunton Road, roads, lands, swamp white oak tree, Jeremiah Tinkham, Caleb Thompson, Samuel Thomas, David Thomas, Samuel Thatcher, Ephraim Norcott, David Delano, Joseph Bumpus, Ichabod Tupper, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 125-144a]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 115, page 132