Petition of Silvanus Barrows

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548692 Date of creation: 1742-05-26 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Silvanus BarrowsJohn AldenShubael LewisJacob BardenLemuel BennettJacob GreenJohn Jackson Actions taken on dates: 1742-06-04,1742-06-18 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 4, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred in the Council on June 18, 1742 Total signatures: 50 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, not concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the Inhabitants of the Northwesterly part of the East precinct in Middleborough in the County of Plymouth 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: Plymouth county, boundaries, town incorporation, schools, education, lands, Taunton Road, meeting house, Bridgewater River, Namasket River, swamp white oak tree, Jeremiah Tinkham, Caleb Thompson, Samuel Thomas, David Thomas, Samuel Thatcher, Ephraim Norcott, David Delano, Adam Cushing, Thomas Clapp, Joseph Bumpus, Ichabod Tupper, William Shirley, Thomas Cushing, Josiah Willard, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 125-144a] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 115, pages 138-140