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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448027

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Bridgewater

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

Selected signatures:

1. Edward Mitchell Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1816-01-10,1816-01-18

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 10, 1816 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 18, 1816 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Plymouth county, Indian guardians, resolve, 1811, appointment, lands, owners, nonresidents, action of ejectment, suit, removal, 1814, sale, woman brought action, heir of an Indian, mulatto having some negro blood in her, judicial cases, court cases, decided against him, accounts, probate, balance, another heir, remunerate expenses and costs

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1815, c.130, passed February 5, 1816

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.