Petition of Benjamin Wiser

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855943 Date of creation: 1748-02-03 Petition location: Worcester Selected signatures:Benjamin Wiser Actions taken on dates: 1748-02-19,1748-02-19 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on February 19, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 19, 1748 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian planter, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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: Natick, to sell lands, sale, debts, barn, farm, cattle, house, buildings, original order lost due to a fire at the Boston court house, Province house, Indian guardians, includes affidavits, certifications from John Chandler, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Gershom Rice, Thomas Hutchinson, Daniel Boyden, Samuel Andrews, Nathaniel Adams Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 557-558