Petition of Samuel James

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855862">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855862</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1740-05-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Bridgewater </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel James</li><li>Jean James</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1740-06-09,1740-06-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on June 9, 1740 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 10, 1740 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian man, his wife late Jean Fairweather, [males of color], [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>Signatory column format: not column separated </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: Jean Fairweather, mother Sarah Fairweather, to sell lands inherited at Little Compton, sale, Dartmouth, Bridgewater, Rhode Island, inheritance, Bristol county, Josiah Willard, John Quincy, William Hall, Charles Dyer, Jonathan Belcher </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 285 </p>