Petition of Thomas Awunsimuch

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855900">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855900</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1742-05-26 </p> <p>Petition location: Natick </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Awunsimuch</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1742-06-04,1742-06-04 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 4, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 4, 1742 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian planter, [males of color] </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: [Thomas Awassamaug, Thomas Awassamug?], to sell lands, sale, purchase, small house, buildings, debts, listed to go to Cuba under the command of Captain Stuart but never did, Captain Stewart, billeting, bounties, sickness, families, military service, soldiers, veterans, Boston, proprietors, inheritance, burial, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, John Jones, John Cushing </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 398-399 </p>