Petition of George Thomas Sewall

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448931">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448931</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1852-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Hooper, Boston; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>George Thomas Sewall</li><li>Lisbon Johnson</li><li>Anna Sewall</li><li>Nancy Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1852-01-31 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1852 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 4.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 2.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 2.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: husbands of proprietors of said Marshpee, Indian proprietors of said Marshpee, colored persons, [males of color], [females of color] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Mashpee, Barnstable county, no proprietary right, no children, prohibited from holding any real estate, either by purchase devise or otherwise, no right of suffrage except in right of their said wives, permanent home, to hold real estate by purchase, right of voting </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1852, Docket 3300 </p>