Petition of Prince Vitto

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908974 Date of creation: 1755-08-26 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Prince Vitto Actions taken on dates: 1755-12-27,1755-12-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on December 27, 1755 and read and ordered that the prayer of this petition be granted and that the deed referred to in the petition be hold the land good and valid in the law to all intents and purposes and thereby conveyed be and hereby is confirmed to the petitioner in as full and ample manner and sort as the said deed had been passed by order of this court and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on December 29, 1755 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: late a negro man servant to the Reverend Oliver Peabody of Natick deceased, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Natick 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: Job Comecho an Indian, Job Comacho, bastard child, gaol, prison, aunt, nephew, Mary Ephraim, freedom, [Harvard connection] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 9, pages 390-392