Petition of Hester Atamon

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855959">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855959</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1749-08-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Harwich </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Hester Atamon</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1749-08-08,1749-08-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on August 8, 1749 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on August 8, 1749 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian widow woman, [females 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: Mashpee </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: Esther Atamon, sale, to sell lands, support, daughter, senseless, speechless, disabilities, Indian guardians, went to sea, whaling, Richard Atamon, Christian Atamon, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Joseph Dwight, includes notes, affidavits, certifications from Joseph Doane, Joseph Crocker, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 640-640a for deeds, Richard Atamon, Christian Atamon, Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, lands, Simon Tom, William Paine, Solomon Otis, Elisha Linnell, Jonathan Higgins, Nathaniel Gould, Stephen Cole, Plymouth] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 638-639 </p>