Petition of Peter Brand

Petition subject: Court cases Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548066 Date of creation: 1752-11-29 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Peter Brand Actions taken on dates: 1752-12-09,1752-12-09,1753-03-31,1753-03-31 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on December 9, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 9, 1752 and received and read and dismissed in the Council on March 31, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on March 31, 1753 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, dismissed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian physician, [males 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: doctor, stay of execution, redress, land dispute, lands, John Drury, Shrewsbury, Charlestown, trials, trespass, inferior court, superior court of judicature, arbitration, Indian guardians, deeds, agriculture, improvements, fences, John Death, Samuel Abraham Sr., Samuel Abraham Jr., Spencer Phipps, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Greenwood, Isaac Coolidge, Thomas Clark, ["...But, (your petitioner being an Indian) the request could not be granted..."], [additional documents in volumes, see pages 311-313, 354-355] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 311-312