Petition of Benjamin Kohkkewenaunt

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548142 Date of creation: 1756-04-15 Petition location: Stockbridge Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Benjamin KohkkewenauntJohn PophnehonnuhwohDavid NaunauneekkaunuckJacob Cheeksunkkun Actions taken on dates: 1756-06-10,1756-06-10 Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on June 10, 1756 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 10, 1756 Total signatures: 4 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and proprietors of the undivided lands in Stockbridge, comtee, [males of color], ["some of the Stockbridge Indians"] 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: town, legal meeting, blacksmith, Stephen Nash, lands, Boston, John Konkapot, committee, Josiah Willard, Eldad Taylor, William Shirley, Spencer Phipps, Elisha Jones, Joshua Hutchins, Thomas Hubbard Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 718-719