Petition of Samuel Abraham Sr.

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855833">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855833</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1726-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Natick </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names, possibly from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Abraham Sr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian of Natick, [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: 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: Samuel Abram, Middlesex county, to sell lands and build a house, sale, a great desire to live more like my Christian English neighbours, weary of living in a wigwam, materials, buildings, English towns, gospel, religious, house, meadow, swamp, William Dummer, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 135-137] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 135 </p>