Petition of Ephraim Shearman

Petition subject: Religion Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548265 Date of creation: 1771-04-03 Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Ephraim Shearman Actions taken on dates: 1771-04-06,1771-04-06 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on April 6, 1771 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 6, 1771 and sent for concurrence Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, sent Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: by order of the town 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: Ephraim Sherman, town of Grafton, lands, Hassanamisco, Cambridge, Great Barrington, town incorporation, proprietors, meeting houses, buildings, Indian guardians, religious, reserve room and provision, accomodation, seats, reduced, Artemas Ward, Israel Taylor, Timothy Paine, David Ingersoll Jr., Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Denny, Thomas Cushing, John Cotton, William Brattle, ["...There is but one male Indian left..."], [additional documents in volumes, see page 535] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 525-526