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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548101

Date of creation: 1754-03-27

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Job Ahaten

Actions taken on dates: 1754-04-10,1754-04-11,1754-06-07,1754-06-07

Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on April 10, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 11, 1754 and received and read and dismissed in the Council on June 7, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 7, 1754

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, dismissed, sent, received, read, concurred

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: [males 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: deeds, unintentionally signed, illegal, Stephen David, Boston, Titicut, lands, alcohol, liquor, Job Ahaton, grandmother Leah Ahauton, Leah Ahaton, Leah Ahaten, William Shirley, Nathaniel Russell, Ezra Richmond, Joseph Richards, Elkanah Leonard, Thomas Hubbard, Stephen David, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see v.31, pages 394-395, 465, 659-660a and v.32, pages 489-490, 527-528, 622-623 and v.33, pages 468-469]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 489-490