Petition of Samuel Abram

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855834 Date of creation: 1726-12 Petition location: Natick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Samuel Abram Actions taken on dates: 1726-12-08,1726-12-26,1726-12-27 Legislative action: Received and read in the House on December 8, 1726 and sent and committed and received and read and granted in the Council on December 26, 1726 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 27, 1726 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, sent, committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: planter, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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: Samuel Abraham Sr., previous petition revived, to sell lands, house, buildings, sale, to settle an English neighbor near Reverend Mr. Oliver Peabody, minister, religious, Samuel Ames, sojourner, upland, meadow bottom, signed and supported by principle proprietors and inhabitants in Natick, [females of color], Thomas Peagon, Thomas Pegain, Thomas Pegan, James Speen, John Speen, Hannah Speen, Solomon Thomas, Joseph Ephraim, Benjamin Tray, Adam Winthrop, Josiah Willard, Francis Fulham, Thomas Fitch, William Dummer, William Dudley, includes statements from Samuel Ames and Oliver Peabody, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 135-137] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 136-137