Petition of Thomas Beman

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855764">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855764</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1677-05-23 </p> <p>Petition location: Marlborough, Lancaster, Sudbury </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Beman</li><li>Joshua Sawyer</li><li>Josiah Howe</li><li>Samuel Winch</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 12 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: severall inhabitants of Marlborough, Lancaster, and Sudbury hereunto subscribed </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Nipmuc </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: permission to occupy Indians islands in Whip Suffrage, lands </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 240 </p>