Petition of Patience Thomas

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548121 Date of creation: 1755-04-22 Petition location: Pembroke Selected signatures:Patience ThomasCaleb Brand Actions taken on dates: 1755-06-12,1755-06-13 Legislative action: Received and read and revived in the House on June 12, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 13, 1755 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, read, revived, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian woman Sachemiss & owner of all the Lands lying in Pembroke aforesaid commonly called & known by the name of the Indian Lands, Caleb Brand alias Comes her Grandson, [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: Mattakeesit, Mattakeesett, sale, to sell lands, Indian guardians, lease, rent, farm, agriculture, pond, apples, food, inheritance, roads, fishing, families, Henry Josselyn, Joseph Josselyn, Henry Momo, Gamaliel Bradford, Josiah Edson Jr., Nathaniel Smith, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 609-610, 624-625, 675-676, 696-698] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 609-610