Petition of Elizabeth Ombny

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855871 Date of creation: 1741 Petition location: West Tisbury Selected signatures:Elizabeth OmbnyRepakah HunnetZachariah HoswitJoseph OngratPash OmbnyNeat ChommockDorrity Benter140 John KenotommoeRachal CharlesBengmon TobyJerusha TobyRuth QunhetThomas SamsonObediah NonomitMoses CharlesIsaac MicahSamuel Sooposin Sr.Daniel SooposinHannahJoel SuposinSamuel OmpanyAmos Janoxso Jr.David CapeSamuel Sooposin Jr.John RobbinsSolomon Ned Actions taken on dates: 1741-07-23,1741-08-04 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the Council on July 23, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on August 4, 1741 Total signatures: 26 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 7 Males of color signatures: 18 Unidentified signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of Okokamy or Christian Town, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians of Christian Town"] 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: Okokamy, Okakamy, Christiantown, large quantities of timber carried away illegally, firewood, fences, wood grain alcohol, lands, liquor, lumber, trespass, proprietors, Josiah Willard, Jonathan Belcher, John Hobson, William Tilton, John Allen, Rachel Charles, Thomas Sampson, Martha's Vineyard Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 315-316