Petition of Samuel Ompany

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548251 Date of creation: 1768-05-31 Petition location: Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee Selected signatures:Samuel OmpanyZerviah Ompany Actions taken on dates: 1768-06-24,1768-06-25 Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and granted in the House on June 24, 1768 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 25, 1768 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: his wife both of Tisbury in Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: Zurviah Ompany, Gayhead, Gay head, sale, lands, Natick, children, house, Indian guardians, buildings, Zachariah Mayhew, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Cushing, Francis Bernard, Jonathan Allen Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 472-474