Petition of Hendrick Kekquoquau

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548040">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548040</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1750-09-26 </p> <p>Petition location: Stockbridge </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Hendrick Kekquoquau</li><li>Adam Mahtaunkaumeet</li><li>Mhtockauweun</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1750-10-10,1750-10-11,1750-10-11,1751-01-30,1751-01-31,1751-01-31 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on October 10, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on October 11, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on October 11, 1750 and received and read and committed in the Council on January 30, 1751 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 31, 1751 and received and referred to the next session in the Council on January 31, 1751 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on February 7, 1751 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, not concurred, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, referred, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a native and claimer of the nothern part of Brookfield alias the land called Lambs Town lying on the northwest of the sd Brookfield, [males of color] </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, Quabaug </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: Hendrick Kequoquau, inheritance, lands, Lambstown, Hardwick, Brookfield, accounts, Josiah Willard, Joseph Wilder, John Stoddard, Eleazar Porter, Spencer Phipps, Thomas Hubbard, Samuel Holbrook, Timothy Dwight, Josiah Converse, Thomas Berry, includes note, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 68-70, 91-95a] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 68-70 </p>