Petition of Silvanus Bourn

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548182">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548182</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1759-06-06 </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Silvanus Bourn</li><li>Edward Bacon</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1759-06-06,1759-06-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed on June 6, 1759 and reported on June 9, 1759 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, reported </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Esqrs two of the Guardians to the Mashpee Indians </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Jacob Simon, military service, soldiers, veterans, Indian guardians, reimbursement, care, nursing, burial, support, sickness, smallpox, French and Indian War, accounts, English, Captain, Thomas Pownall </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, page 108 </p>