Petition of Joseph Metark

Petition subject: Military Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548194 Date of creation: 1761-04-02 Petition location: Chilmark Selected signatures:Joseph Metark Actions taken on dates: 1761-04-09,1761-04-10 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on April 9, 1761 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 10, 1761 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: an Indian man belonging to Chilmark on Martha Vineyard, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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: Joseph Matark, Joseph Matork, Joseph Mittark, Captain Samuel Thaxter, military service, soldiers, veterans, captured, captivity, surrender of Fort William Henry, cruel and hard master, French priest, Catholic, religious, General Geoffrey Amherst, Indian village, escape, Captain Dunlap, allowance, compensation, suffering, Crown Point, New York, Bristol, Maine, prisoners of war, Gay Head, Gayhead, garrisons, French and Indian War, Benjamin Lincoln, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Francis Bernard Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 161-162a