Petition of Stephen Nye

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548453">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548453</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1783-01-29 </p> <p>Petition location: Plymouth </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Stephen Nye</li><li>Ephraim Ellis</li><li>Seth Freeman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1783-03-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on March 22, 1783 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Guardians of the Herring Pond Indians in the Town of Plymouth </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: Mashpee </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: Desire Jeffry, Desire Jeffery, Desire Jeffrey, sale, lands, Fresh Pond, Indian guardians, Herring Pond, John Witherel, John Witherell, widows, Joseph Nye, Sandwich, deeds, Vans, Smith, Dunbar </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 188, pages 216-217 </p>