Petition of Sara Lawrence

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548192 Date of creation: 1760-01-09 Petition location: Grafton Selected signatures:Sara Lawrence Actions taken on dates: 1760-03-27,1760-03-27,1761-01-06,1761-01-13 Legislative action: Received and read and referred to the next session in the Council on March 27, 1760 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on March 27, 1760 and received and read and granted in the Council on January 6, 1761 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 13, 1761 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, referred, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian Planter of Grafton in the county of Worcester in the Province aforsaid, [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: Sarah Lawrence, sale, lands, Hassanamisco, daughters, sons, military service, debts, repairs, buildings, dwelling house, [craizy?] and leaky, shelter, fire wood, Indian guardians, allowance, cast herself at the feet, begging, General Court, petitioning, widow, farm, Christian land, heaven's blessing, religious, Mary Tom, John Sherman, Mr. Prentiss, Thomas Pownall, wet meadow, highway, deeds, Samuel White, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Francis Bernard, Joseph Baker, Edward Baker, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see page 153] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 157-158