Petition of Joseph Ephraim

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855948 Date of creation: 1748-03-28 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Joseph EphraimJacob ChalcomJoseph CommechoIsaac EphraimDaniel ThomasJeremiah ComachoPeter EphraimThomas PeagonEleazar PognittJoseph PogenitJosiah SpeenMoses SpeenNathaniel Coochuck Actions taken on dates: 1748-04-22,1748-04-23 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on April 22, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 23, 1748 Total signatures: 13 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 13 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the Indian inhabitants of the Parish of Natick in the County of Middlesex in sd Province, Deac, [males of color], [\"the Indians of Natick\"] 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: Deacon, ponds, fishing, fisheries, families, Ebenezer Feltch, English inhabitants, trespass, fishing ground, neck of Lake Cochituate, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Hutchinson, Pegan Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 574-575