Petition of Sarah Wampsquon

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548241 Date of creation: 1767-01-29 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Sarah Wampsquon Actions taken on dates: 1767-03-13,1767-03-16 Legislative action: Received and granted in the House on March 13, 1767 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred in the Council on March 16, 1767 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, granted, sent, received, read, not concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian widow, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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: sale, lands, support, Sarah Wamsquon, bound to service, servitude, indentured servants, John Bradish, Cambridge, Boston, Dedham, proprietors, Solomon Wamsquon, Solomon Wampsquon, dower, sickness, dead palsy, inhabitancy, house, buildings, streets, weather, deeds, Andrew Oliver, John Jones, Thomas Cushing, Francis Bernard Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 409-410