Petition of Leah Chalcom

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548181 Date of creation: 1759-06-02 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Leah ChalcomEsther SooduckHepzibeth Pegun Actions taken on dates: 1759-10-17,1759-10-18 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on October 17, 1759 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on October 18, 1759 Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 3 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian women of Natick in the County of Middlesex, [females 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: sale, lands, household business, debts, Indian guardians, deeds, law suits, courts, Pegan, John Jones, Joseph Buckminster, John Clark, Samuel White, Thomas Pownall, Andrew Oliver, includes affidavits, certifications Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 106-107