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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548692

Date of creation: 1742-05-26

Petition location: Middleborough

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

Selected signatures:

1. Silvanus Barrows
2. John Alden
3. Shubael Lewis
4. Jacob Barden
5. Lemuel Bennett
6. Jacob Green
7. John Jackson

Actions taken on dates: 1742-06-04,1742-06-18

Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 4, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred in the Council on June 18, 1742

Total signatures: 50

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, not concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the Inhabitants of the Northwesterly part of the East precinct in Middleborough in the County of Plymouth

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: Plymouth county, boundaries, town incorporation, schools, education, lands, Taunton Road, meeting house, Bridgewater River, Namasket River, swamp white oak tree, Jeremiah Tinkham, Caleb Thompson, Samuel Thomas, David Thomas, Samuel Thatcher, Ephraim Norcott, David Delano, Adam Cushing, Thomas Clapp, Joseph Bumpus, Ichabod Tupper, William Shirley, Thomas Cushing, Josiah Willard, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 125-144a]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 115, pages 138-140