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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909023

Date of creation: 1741-08

Petition location: Tiverton

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Woodle

Actions taken on dates: 1741-08-28,1741-08-28,1742-06-01,1742-06-02

Legislative action: Received in the House on August 28, 1741 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on August 28, 1741 and read and concurred and received in the Council on June 1, 1742 and read again and ordered to be dismissed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 2, 1742 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a free negro yeoman, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Samuel Snell, Newport, Rhode Island, Bristol county, action of trespass and ejectment, Pocasset Purchase, Thomas Townsend, Mary Townsend, Captain Joseph Mason, William Richard, Benaiah Goddard, [Beniah Goddard], William Hall, [also concerning court cases, see volume for additional documents, depositions]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 42, pages 75-78

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.