Petition of John Jones

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548236">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548236</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1766-06-03 </p> <p>Petition location: Dedham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Jones</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1767-02-12,1767-02-12,1767-02-17,1767-02-19 </p> <p>Legislative action: Reported and received and read and granted in the Council on February 12, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred and amended in the House on February 17, 1767 and received and granted in the House on February 12, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 19, 1767 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: agent to Sameul Ompany and Zurviah Ompany, Indians of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard </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: Aquinnah </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: petition be revived, sale, lands, Zachariah Mayhew, Jonathan Allen, report, attorney, Middlesex county, Gayhead, Gay head, deeds, house, buildings, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Cushing, Francis Bernard, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 348-350, 390-392] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 390-392 </p>