Petition of Patience Thomas

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548141 Date of creation: 1756 Petition location: Pembroke Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee appointed the 13th Sept to consider of the memo of Peter Job and others Selected signatures:Patience ThomasAbigail QuawsonCaleb Brand Actions taken on dates: 1756-04-15,1756-04-15,1756-08-25,1756-08-26 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on April 15, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 15, 1756 and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on August 25, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on August 26, 1756 Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 2 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians at a Place called Mattakeset in Pembrook in the County of Plymouth, [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: Mattakeesit, Mattakeesett, Abigail Osgood, sale, lands, leases, rents, John Quixet, Mercy Jeffery, wigwam, buildings, Mr. Tubbs, Mercy Nowet, Mary Ned, Indian guardians, appointments, money, Josiah Willard, Nathaniel Smith, William Shirley, Thomas Hubbard, Josiah Edson Jr., Gamaliel Bradford, John Cushing, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 710-715a] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 713-715a