Petition of Benjamin Wyser

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855910">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855910</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1742-12-23 </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Benjamin Wyser</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1743-04-05,1743-04-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on April 5, 1743 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 6, 1743 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian planter, Josiah Richardson attor to Benjamin Wyser, [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: Benjamin Wiser, to sell lands, sale, Boston, Natick, proprietors, attorney, James Wyser, James Wiser, Joseph Ephraim, Edward Ward, Josiah Willard, William Ward, William Shirley, Josiah Richardson, Francis Foxcroft, Thomas Cushing, Daniel Boyden, includes affidavits, certifications of John Chandler </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 433-433a </p>