Petition of David Ralph

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28539122">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28539122</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1781-03-21 </p> <p>Petition location: Harwich </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the sale of lands </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>David Ralph</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1781-05-02,1781-05-07 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the Senate on May 2, 1781 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on May 7, 1781 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian man, [males of color] </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: Eastham, to sell lands, sale, fences, deeds, selectmen, sober, prudence, Nathaniel Downes, Benjamin Berry, Joseph Snow, Caleb Davis, John Hancock, Jeremiah Powell, includes affidavits, certifications, [“...descended to him from his ancestors...”] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 233, pages 1-3 </p>