Petition of Patience Sachames

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548127 Date of creation: 1755-05-28 Petition location: Pembroke Selected signatures:Patience SachamesAbigailCaleb BrandPeter JobMary QuicksittMercy NowotsRuth WampaMary GeferyRachel HoodBetty Solomon Actions taken on dates: 1755-06-12,1755-06-13 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on June 12, 1755 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 13, 1755 Total signatures: 10 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 8 Males of color signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: others of the tribe of Indians at Matakessett in Pembroke, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: Patience Thomas, Mattakeset, Mattakeeset, Mattakeesett, Mattakeesit, leases, lands, Indian guardians, Henry Josselyn, Thomas Josselyn, Boston, Pembroke, Plymouth, William Shirley, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 609-610, 624-625, 675-676, 696-698] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 624-625