Petition of John Thomas Jr.

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855954 Date of creation: 1748-11-10 Petition location: Pembroke Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:John Thomas Jr. Actions taken on dates: 1748-11-15,1748-11-16 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on November 15, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on November 16, 1748 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian man, [males of color] 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: Mattakesett, Mattakeset, lands, inheritance, father, grandfather, Titicut, sale, Middleborough, John Thomas Sr., Samuel Thomas, James Thomas, lame, disabilities, Josiah Willard, Isaac Little, George Leonard, Thomas Hutchinson, John Cushing, Gamaliel Bradford, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 582-583, 610, 616, 624-625] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 610