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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855862

Date of creation: 1740-05-28

Petition location: Bridgewater

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel James
2. Jean James

Actions taken on dates: 1740-06-09,1740-06-10

Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 9, 1740 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 10, 1740

Total signatures: 2

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

Females of color signatures: 1

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indian man, his wife late Jean Fairweather, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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: Jean Fairweather, mother Sarah Fairweather, to sell lands inherited at Little Compton, sale, Dartmouth, Bridgewater, Rhode Island, inheritance, Bristol county, Josiah Willard, John Quincy, William Hall, Charles Dyer, Jonathan Belcher

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 285