Petition of Nelson Finney

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548163 Date of creation: 1757-11-23 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Nelson Finney Actions taken on dates: 1757-12-09 Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on December 9, 1757 and sent for concurrence Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, sent Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: Nelson Phinney, money, care, support, sickness, dwelling house, Ponkapoag, Boston, Indian guardians, accounts, Robert Spurr, Thomas Pownall, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Foster Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 25-25a