Petition of John Norton

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831368 Date of creation: 1767-06-06 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:John Norton Actions taken on dates: 1767-06,1767-06-19,1767-06-20,1768-06-28,1768-06-28 Legislative action: Committed in June 1767 and reported and received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on June 19, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 20, 1767 and received and revived and referred to the next session in the Council on June 28, 1768 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 28, 1768 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, revived, referred, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: as agent unto the Proprietors of the Island of Chabeuideck in the Townshipp of Edgartown, Agent for the Proprietors of sd Chapequideck Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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: Chappaquiddick, lands, King William, Queen Mary, Francis Loudon, New York, laws, wilderness, English, wild grass, Thomas Cushing, Andrew Oliver, Francis Bernard, Otis, Preble, Edson Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 118, pages 292-293a