Petition of John Curtis

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548068">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548068</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1752-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Curtis</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1752-12-08,1752-12-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on December 8, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 8, 1752 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: attorney to Martha Boman an old and very infirm Indian woman & Samuel Boman her son both of Worcester Joseph Pegon & Martha his wife of Dudley Zachariah Equi & Betty his wife of Sturbridge the said Martha & Betty being daughters of the sd Martha Boman and also in behalf of Benja Wiser a minor aged about six years grandson of said Martha Boman </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: Nipmuc </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: Martha Bowman, heirs, to sell lands, Natick, sale, stock, buildings, clothing, proprietors, Boston, Dudley, Sturbridge, proprietors, Indian guardians, deeds, agriculture, Benjamin Wiser, Martha Pegon, Pegan, Joseph Pegon, Zachariah Equis, Zachariah Equi, Betty Equis, Betty Equi, Samuel Bowman, Thomas Clark, Ephraim Curtis, John Curtis, Samuel Danforth, Thomas Hubbard, Spencer Phipps, Joseph Richards, includes affidavits, certifications </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 316-318 </p>