Petition of [Con Seeget]

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548198 Date of creation: 1762-01-06 Petition location: Plymouth Selected signatures:[Con Seeget]Micha SeegetEzekiel JoelTobias SambelJoshua CoombsJabez JosephJabez WilkedAaron MosesJon NewmanDael RobenWilliam SamsenJon GegenMicah SepitRachel JosepJoseph JoelDorcas JosephJonas QuoayZacheus Unnah[?][Sagis Wick] Actions taken on dates: 1762-02-16 Legislative action: Referred to the next session on February 16, 1762 Total signatures: 20 Legislative action summary: Referred Females of color signatures: 2 Males of color signatures: 15 Unidentified signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a Number of Indians Dwelling in the Southeast part of the Town of Plymouth and Northwest part of the Town of Sandwich and Proprietors of lands lying in sd Towns, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: request for half the profits of the alewife fishery, alewives, fisheries, fishing, lands, ponds, Herring River, not allowed privileges of taking fish to market, Sandwich, proprietors, fishery rights, English, Herring River, ponds, [Mashpee?], Francis Bernard, [note: two names not transcribed] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 186-186a