Petition of Ephraim Williams

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855848 Date of creation: 1739-05 Petition location: Stockbridge Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the Indian petitions Selected signatures:Ephraim Williams Actions taken on dates: 1739-06-12,1739-06-15,1739-06-20 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 12, 1739 and reported and received and read and granted in the House on June 15, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 20, 1739 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: at the desire of the Revd Mr John Sarjant, the English Inhabitants and Indians dwelling there Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee 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: that \"Indian town\" be incorporated, town incorporation, Stockbridge, established on June 22, 1739, Boston, Housatonic River, minister, meeting house, religious, John Sergeant, John Quincy, Ebenezer Pomeroy, Simon Frost, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 236-239, 241-244] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 236-237