Petition of Roben Soncausen

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548123 Date of creation: 1755-05-28 Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Roben SoncausenIsaac NatampamTimothy RightJoseph RicherdsDaniel SoncausenSamuel RicherdsSias PeterJosiah PopnoatJoseph RiherdsJacob MetumpomIsaac Simon Jr.John WepquishJoseph SoncasunDavid SonkasunGershon Barnbas Actions taken on dates: 1755-06-09,1755-06-09 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 9, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 9, 1755 Total signatures: 15 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 15 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: us the Subscribers the Indian proprietors of a Tract of Land Called Mashpee In the County of Barnstable, [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: sale, to sell lands, Ebenezer Thomas, house, barn, farm, buildings, bushes, timber, wood, water, repairs, meeting house, religious, Indian guardians, deeds, William Shirley, James Otis, Thomas Hubbard, David Crocker, Thomas Clark, Silvanus Bourne, includes affidavits, certifications Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 616-617