Petition of John Chamberlain

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448023 Date of creation: 1797-05-22 Petition location: Dudley Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:John ChamberlainJonathan DayJohn Curtis Jr. Actions taken on dates: 1797-06-03,1797-06-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 3, 1797 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 6, 1797 and read and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Committee on behalf of the town of Dudley Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc, Dudley 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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Pagan tribe, Pegan, lands, taxation, support, poor, uncultivated, sale, probate, ["...harbouring all kinds of people of couler…"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1797, c.21, passed June 17, 1797