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Petition subject: Resources

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548198

Date of creation: 1762-01-06

Petition location: Plymouth

Selected signatures:

1. [Con Seeget]
2. Micha Seeget
3. Ezekiel Joel
4. Tobias Sambel
5. Joshua Coombs
6. Jabez Joseph
7. Jabez Wilked
8. Aaron Moses
9. Jon Newman
10. Dael Roben
11. William Samsen
12. Jon Gegen
13. Micah Sepit
14. Rachel Josep
15. Joseph Joel
16. Dorcas Joseph
17. Jonas Quoay
18. Zacheus Unnah
19. [?]
20. [Sagis Wick]

Actions taken on dates: 1762-02-16

Legislative action: Referred to the next session on February 16, 1762

Total signatures: 20

Legislative action summary: Referred

Females of color signatures: 2

Males of color signatures: 15

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a Number of Indians Dwelling in the Southeast part of the Town of Plymouth and Northwest part of the Town of Sandwich and Proprietors of lands lying in sd Towns, [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: request for half the profits of the alewife fishery, alewives, fisheries, fishing, lands, ponds, Herring River, not allowed privileges of taking fish to market, Sandwich, proprietors, fishery rights, English, Herring River, ponds, [Mashpee?], Francis Bernard, [note: two names not transcribed]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 186-186a