Petition of James Paugenett

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855907">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855907</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1742-09-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Cambridge </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James Paugenett</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1742-09-08,1742-09-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on September 8, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on September 8, 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: a poor prisoner in his majesties goal in Cambridge in the county of Middlesex, by Wm Brattle his attorney, [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: James Paugenit, James Paugenot, James Pocknet, to sell lands, Natick, legal fees, trials, courts, charges, accounts, debts, acquitted for the murder of his infant child, families, jails, imprisonment, William Brattle, Josiah Willard, Benjamin White, William Shirley, John Quincy, Thomas Cushing, [additional documents in volumes, see page 426] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 425-425a </p>