Petition of Joshua Box

Petition subject: Servitude Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855853 Date of creation: 1739-03 Petition location: Chilmark Selected signatures:Joshua Box Actions taken on dates: 1739-07-03,1739-07-05 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition and referred to the next session in the House on July 3, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on July 5, 1739 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, referred, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian man, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: Dukes County, justices of the peace, Benjamin Mayhew, sheepskin, stealing, larceny, fines, whipping, serve, service, review of verdict, theft, Boston, travel, poor sheep that died with poverty, wife, slavery, Mehitable Box, Samuel Norton, John Quincy, Simon Frost, Jonathan Belcher, includes signatures of witnesses, Zacheus Hatch constable, Zaccheus Hatch, Sarah Ekill, Hitty Box, Jethro Horton, [additional documents in volumes, see page 249] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 250-252