Petition of Shubael Gorham

Petition subject: Servitude Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855846 Date of creation: 1739-05 Petition location: [Barnstable county] Selected signatures:Shubael Gorham Actions taken on dates: 1739-07-06,1739-07-07,1739-07-09 Legislative action: Received and read in the Council on July 6, 1739 and received and read and granted in the House on July 7, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on July 9, 1739 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Esqr sheriff of the county of Barnstable & keeper of his majties goal in sd town Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: Shuball Gorham, permission to sell David Stevens of Chatham into indentured servitude, servants, could not pay his prison fees, jails, imprisonment, accused of murdering another Indian, Samuel Thornshill, Samuel Thomshill, Samuel Tompshill, Samuel Tornpshill, Samuel Sion, Samuel Lion, Samuel Lyon, jury, special verdict, murder, manslaughter, escape, sentenced him to be burnt with a hot marking iron and to pay costs of prosecution, ten years, Boston, jails, county courts, court of general sessions of the peace, Provincetown, Province Town, Samuel Thompson, John Quincy, John Chandler, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 231-233] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 228-230a