Petition of Micah Ralph

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548288 Date of creation: 1774-05-25 Petition location: Harwich Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Micah Ralph Actions taken on dates: 1774-06-15,1774-06-16 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on June 15, 1774 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 16, 1774 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: an Indian man of Harwich in the County of Barnstable Labourer, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: laborer, petitioning, 1773, leave to withdraw, wood, fences, Quasson, Quason, Chatham, lands, proprietors, deeds, 1696, 1711, Joseph Quason, John Quason Sr., John Quason Jr., Jeremiah Quason, Samuel Quason, Josephas Quason, Josephes Quason, Sarah Pompmo, Betty Nopie, Little James, Joshua Jethro, Hosea Ralph, Wawhenamu, Monomy River, Monomoy River, Eastham, Herring Pond, Long Pond, Monomoy Island, Muddy Cove, Yarmouth, boundaries, Ebenezer Thayer, William Seaver, James Otis, Giles Jackson, Thomas Gage, Joseph Doane, Thomas Cushing, John Cotton, Nathan Bassett, Edward Bacon, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 616-626] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 616-617