Petition of Jane Tacanash

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548505 Date of creation: 1783-03-22 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Jane Tacanash Actions taken on dates: 1783-06-05,1783-06-14 Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on June 5, 1783 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Senate on June 14, 1783 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian woman, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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: Jane Tackanash, Martha's Vineyard, fever, 20 years, sickness, Peter Paul, kinsman, nurses, doctors, families, husband, lands, expenses, sale, cattle, improvements, widow, children, English, deeds, wood, compensation, confirmation, judge of probate, Dukes County, accounts, debts, Ebenezer Smith, Cottle, Hall, Hosmer, Nichols, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Tristram Dalton Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 239, pages 561-562