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Petition subject: Representation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548237

Date of creation: 1766-10-29

Petition location: Barnstable

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

Selected signatures:

1. Isaac Hinckley

Legislative action: Committed

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Committed

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Esqr of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable Agent for the Indian Proprietors & Inhabitants of Marshpee in said county

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: act, incorporation, Mashpee, proprietors, district, revived and continued, boundaries, accepted and confirmed, officers, elections, voting, Falmouth, Maine, Harwich, Sandwich, selectmen, Indian guardians, Joseph Hawley, Benjamin Greenleaf, Chillingworth Foster, Ebenezer Crocker, Francis Bernard

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, page 398