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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855908

Date of creation: 1742-11-18

Petition location: Bridgewater

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

Selected signatures:

1. Nehemiah Washburn

Actions taken on dates: 1742-11-22,1742-11-23

Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on November 22, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on November 23, 1742

Total signatures: 1

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

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: land dispute, boundaries, lands, captain, Titicut, Plymouth, Plimouth, Barnstable, committee, ownership, settlement, Bridgewater, Indian guardians, superior court of judicature, trespass, Isaac Winslow, Josiah Willard, Samuel White, Benjamin White, Nathaniel Thomas, John Thatcher, Stephen Skiffe, William Shirley, Stephen Paine, John Quincy, John Otis, Josiah Morton, Barnabas Lothrop, George Leonard, Thomas Cushing, John Cushing, Ezra Clapp, William Bassett, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 430-431a]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 427-429a