Petition of John Eliot

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855737 Date of creation: 1659-10-21 Petition location: Roxbury Selected signatures:John Eliot Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: in the behalf of the poore Indians 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: Jonathan Danforth, Thomas Danforth, appointments, Indian towns, that Indians not be permitted to sell the land until it is divided, Chelmsford, Concord, Marlborough, Natick, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, lands, sale, boundaries, survey, Major Willard, Captain Johnson, Simon Willard, Hassunnimesit, Hassanamesit, Hassanamisco, Ogquonikongquamesit [Okommakamesit, Ogkoohquonkam, Whipsufferage, Whip suffrage, Whipsuppenicke], Nayhop, religious Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 81