Petition of Spencer Phips

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855906">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855906</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1743-04-04 </p> <p>Petition location: [Grafton?] </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Spencer Phips</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1743-04-13,1743-04-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the Council on April 13, 1743 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 14, 1743 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, 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: one of the trustees of the Indian proprietors of Hassanamisco (now Grafton) </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: Nipmuc </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: Spencer Phipps, sale, lands, interest, 1727, support, accounts, Ephraim Curtis, Edward Goddard, Castle William, Fort Independence, Indian guardians, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Cushing </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 423-424 </p>