Petition of Samuel Thomas

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855851">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855851</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1739-05 </p> <p>Petition location: Middleborough </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Thomas</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1739-06-30,1739-12-21,1739-12-27,1740-01-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 30, 1739 and reported on December 21, 1739 and received and read and granted in the House on December 27, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 2, 1740 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian planter, [males 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>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: to sell lands in Middleborough to Samuel Thatcher, sale, hill, Chesaumuttuck, fences, firewood, timber, mill pond, improvement, Indian plantation, Plymouth county, Titicut, Boston, lumber, Indian guardians, includes affidavits, certifications of Benjamin White and Ezra Clapp, Elkanah Leonard, Simon Frost, John Cushing, John Alden, Jonathan Belcher </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 245-246 </p>