Petition of John Cook

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855787">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855787</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1693 </p> <p>Petition location: Dartmouth </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Cook</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1693-04-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Read in the Council on April 6, 1693 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Read </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: one of the ancientest inhabitants </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: Bristol county, England, 1620, plantation, request that lands given to him in trust by Sachem Papamoe, Sachem Machacom, Sachem Achawannomet be returned, Sachem Papamo, debts, King Philip's War, Major Benjamin Church, Little Island, Plymouth county, Sandwich, religious, property, New Plymouth Colony, deeds, Dartmouth Indians, William Phips, William Bradford </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 327 </p>