Petition of Silvanus Snow

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548167 Date of creation: 1758-04-14 Petition location: Eastham Selected signatures:Silvanus Snow Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: in behalf of the town and proprietors of sd Eastham as well as for himself and Samuel Smith Esqr in answer to the Petition of Jno. Ralph and sundry others Harwich & Yarmouth Indians 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: Potnumeket, Potawaumacut, Potnument, Potanumaquut, response, answer, whaling, privileges, petitioning, lands, 1644, 1646, 1685, Governor Thomas Hinckley, Billingsgate Island, Billingsgate Beach, Eastham, Harwich, Yarmouth, proprietors, New Plymouth Colony, fishing, Thomas Ralph, John Ralph, Indian guardians, English, sued, courts, meadow, Church of New Plimouth, Naussett, Nauset, sea, [River of Naumshiekiet, Naumsheket, Neumskeket, Nemeskekett, Nemasket?], Herring Brook, Great Bass Pond, Billingsgate Bay, Cape, Truro, incorporation, towns, boundaries, marked tree, stake, Rocky Point, Tatueket, Eastern harbor, Provincetown little pond, titles, islands, Sachems, Samuel Smith, Thomas Pownall, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 10-20, 28-33d] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 33-33b