Petition of John Pease

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548212 Date of creation: 1763 Petition location: [Chappaquiddick?] Selected signatures:John PeaseJoseph HudfordSeth PeaseBenjamin Pease Jr.Beraiah PeaseRuth FishSeth DunhamMatthew ButlerDaniel VinsonJohn NewmanLemuel Butler Actions taken on dates: 1763-06-08,1763-06-09 Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and granted and committed in the Council on June 8, 1763 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 9, 1763 Total signatures: 11 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, read, granted, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10 Female signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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: copy, purchases, Chappaquiddick, confirmation, titles, lands, illegal, law, penalties, proprietors, Martha's Vineyard, Daniel Howard, Thomas Foster, William Brattle, Timothy Ruggles, Andrew Oliver, John Cotton, Francis Bernard, ["…most equitable as well with regard to the Aboriginal Natives of the said Island..."], [additional documents in volumes, see pages 236-238] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 231-232