Petition of Stephen David

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855865 Date of creation: 1740-11 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Stephen David Actions taken on dates: 1740-12-17,1740-12-18,1741-03-17,1741-04-01,1741-04-01,1741-04-03 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on December 17, 1740 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 18, 1740 and reported on March 17, 1741 and received and read and granted on April 1, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred with amendment in the House on April 1, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 3, 1741 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, 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: Mashpee 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: to sell lands, sale, debts, care for his sick wife, children, families, doctor, medical expenses, sickness, jail, prison, obliged to take a voyage to sea, maritime, returned to Middleborough, Boston, Newport, Rhode Island, Taunton River, Trout brook, Josiah Willard, John Quincy, Josiah Edson, John Cushing, Jonathan Belcher, David Alden, William Shirley, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 296-298, 327-329a] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 296-298