Petition of Ephraim Little

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855816 Date of creation: 1708-05-26 Petition location: Middleborough Selected signatures:Ephraim Little Actions taken on dates: 1708-06-24,1708-06-25,1708-10-26,1708-10-27 Legislative action: Received and read in the House on June 24, 1708 and read and ordered to be granted with lands reserved for Indians in the House on June 25, 1708 and sent for concurrence and received and read and revived in the House on October 26, 1708 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on October 27, 1708 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, read, ordered, sent, received, read, revived, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: in behalfe of himself & the other proprietors of the town of Middlebury 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: report of 1703, investigation of Indian claims to lands on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket Island, Assawomsett, and Titicut, Assawomsett Neck in Middleoborough, Assawompset, will of Pamattaquason, Quasson, not truly translated, translation, Mattaquason, wills, proprietors, inheritance, Betty Sassamon, Captain Howdee, John Sassamon, Felix Sassamon, Thomas Oliver, Joseph Dudley, Isaac Addington, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 17-18, report] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 49-50a