Petition of Samuel Ompany

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548251">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548251</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1768-05-31 </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Ompany</li><li>Zerviah Ompany</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1768-06-24,1768-06-25 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and granted in the House on June 24, 1768 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 25, 1768 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: his wife both of Tisbury in Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Native American tribe: Aquinnah </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Zurviah Ompany, Gayhead, Gay head, sale, lands, Natick, children, house, Indian guardians, buildings, Zachariah Mayhew, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Cushing, Francis Bernard, Jonathan Allen </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 472-474 </p>