Petition of Seth Pope

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:29674679">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:29674679</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1698-06-07 </p> <p>Petition location: Dartmouth </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Major John Walley </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Seth Pope</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1698-06-07,1698-12-08,1698-12-09,1698-12-09,1698-12-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Read and committed in the House on June 7, 1698 and reported on December 8, 1698 and read on December 9, 1698 and received and read and granted in the House on December 9, 1698 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 10, 1698 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Read, committed, reported, read, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: in behalf of Sam Quabiscom alt Sam Nopye and Job Penwatcheage two Indians of sd Dartmouth who were souldiers in his Majties service in an Expedition to the Eastward in the years 1696 under the command of Capn Jethro Church an Indian Capn Then subject unto & under Major Benjamin Church's Regiment </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: Aquinnah </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: soldiers, veterans, wages, Eastern, Maine, Indian company, Samuel Quabisquam, alias, Sam Nopye, Martha's Vineyard Indian [Sam Quabiscom, Martha's Vineyard Indian, see Banks, Charles Edward: The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, v.1, p.300-301], Job Penwacheg, Jethro Church, Nathaniel Byfield, Isaac Addington </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 70, pages 374-375 </p>