Petition of John Brigham

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855778">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855778</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1684-10-15 </p> <p>Petition location: [Marlborough?] </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Brigham</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the inhabitants of the towne of Marlborough, in the behalfe & at the request of the propriet. Of the said towne </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: declaration, sale of lands, Whip Suffrage plantation, Ogocanquomeset, [Okommakamesit], claim that best planting land given to Indians after John Eliot complained to the court on their behalf, meadow, King Philip's War, includes addendum by Thomas Waban, Nagata and and James Rumblemarsh on sale of lands without the court's permission, James Rumblemash, James Rumneymarsh, James Rumnymarsh, James Romblymarsh, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 288-290] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 288 </p>