Petition of Thomas Bourn

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831370">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831370</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1770-03-15 </p> <p>Petition location: Sandwich </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Bourn</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1770-04-04,1770-04-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on April 4, 1770 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 6, 1770 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Agent for the Town of Sandwich, and in behalf of said Town, agent </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: Thomas Bourne, answer, petitioning, Pocasset, a copy of a copy, [newspaper?], deputy sheriff, taxation, minister, boundaries, William Tobey, Jonathan Tobey, lands, 1768, widows, minor, guardian, upland, Cape Cod, wood, market, salt marsh, houses, buildings, 1763, Tupper, Boston, Mashpee, Indian Meeting House, English, servants, servitude, Falmouth, church, missionary, Monument, Quakers, families, sea, maritime, bays, ponds, water, desert, wilderness, pines, oaks, Buzzard's Bay, religious, Thomas Hutchinson, Jonathan Cotton, Thomas Cushing, Gamaliel Bradford </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 118, pages 406-409 </p>