Petition of John Weston

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548690">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548690</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1741-02-14 </p> <p>Petition location: Middleborough </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Weston</li><li>Benjamin White Jr.</li><li>Ichabod Tupper</li><li>Samuel Pratt</li><li>Thomas Darling</li><li>Nathaniel Bumpus</li><li>Jacob Thompson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 53 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the Inhabitance of the northwesterly part of said Precinct, clerk to the precinct in Middleboro </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: Plymouth county, boundaries, town incorporation, meeting house, schools, education, Bridgewater river, Nemasket River, Taunton Road, roads, lands, swamp white oak tree, Jeremiah Tinkham, Caleb Thompson, Samuel Thomas, David Thomas, Samuel Thatcher, Ephraim Norcott, David Delano, Joseph Bumpus, Ichabod Tupper, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 125-144a] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 115, page 129 </p>