Petition of Paul Umpeetkhow

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855849">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855849</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1739-05-30 </p> <p>Petition location: Stockbridge </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Paul Umpeetkhow</li><li>Nicholas Uhwaunmut</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1739-06-15,1739-06-20 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 15, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 20, 1739 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: on behalf of themselves and the rest of the Indians living at Housatunnick, [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: Stockbridge-Munsee </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: land exchange with Ephraim Williams and others, Housatonic, Joachim Van Valkenburg, fences, improvement, meadow, wood, Indian Town, Stockbridge, incorporation, Northampton, lands, John Stoddard, John Quincy, Simon Frost, Jonathan Belcher, includes note, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 236-239, 241-244] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 238-239 </p>