Petition of Joshua Brand

Petition subject: Court cases Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548114 Date of creation: 1754-10-30 Petition location: Natick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joshua Brand Actions taken on dates: 1754-10-31,1754-10-31,1755-02-11,1755-02-20,1755-04-24,1755-04-24 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on October 31, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on October 31, 1754 and received and read and committed in the Council on February 11, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on February 20, 1755 and received and read and dismissed in the Council on April 24, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and referred to the next session in the House on April 24, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred in the Council on April 25, 1755 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, dismissed, sent, received, read, not concurred, referred, sent, received, read, not concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a poor Natick Indian, Joseph Richards as Guardian to sd Natick Indians and in behalf & by the Order of Joshua Brand the petitioner, [males 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: inferior court of common pleas, Worcester, Nathaniel Bullard, husbandman, deputy sheriff, Jeremiah Dean, Suffolk county, jails, prisons, boarding, children, bound out, apprentices, Indian guardians, house, Needham, debts, William Shirley, Joseph Richards, Samuel Miller, Benjamin Lincoln, Elisha Jones, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, [William Brattle] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 556-559