Petition of Moses Job

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548343 Date of creation: 1777-01-08 Petition location: Mashpee Selected signatures:Moses JobMathias AmosNathaniel Fish Actions taken on dates: 1777-01-25,1777-01-25 Legislative action: Received and granted in the House on January 25, 1777 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 25, 1777 Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: being overseers or select men of the district of Mashpee, overseers of select men of Mashpee, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: selectmen, annual meeting, Indian guardians, proprietors, original constitution, sale, lands, Captain Simeon Fish, Nathaniel Fish Jr., John Avery, Samuel Freeman, Nathaniel Shiverick, Micah Blackwell Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 144, pages 384-385