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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13905995

Date of creation: 1834-12-30

Petition location: Mattapoisett

Selected signatures:

1. Hannah Hector
2. Pamelia Hector
3. John Sepet Hector
4. William Bell

Total signatures: 4

Females of color signatures: 2

Males of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the only surviving heirs to a tract of land in the town of Carver and county of Plymouth, [females of color], [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Carver, lands, sale, sickness, encroachment, agent, investigation, claims, compensation, Benjamin Ellis, Daniel Bump, John Sepit, Patience Sepit, John Sepet, Sepet tribe, Sepit tribe, Patience Sepet, daughter, Augustus Casey, Sarah Hector; includes notes next to signatures: Hannah Hector, granddaughter; Pamelia Hector, granddaughter; John Sepet Hector, grandson, absent 14 years, supposed dead; William Bell, great grandson, the illegitimate offspring of Sarah Hector, deceased

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, February 25, 1835

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.