Petition of Abigal Speen

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855936 Date of creation: 1747-10-01 Petition location: Natick Selected signatures:Abigal Speen Actions taken on dates: 1748-04-14,1748-04-15 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on April 14, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 15, 1748 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: widow & relict of James Speen Indian proprietor, late of Natick in the county of Middlesex decd, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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: Abigail Speen, Joseph Graves, to sell lands, sale, debts, deeds, support, decent Christian burial, religious, Indian guardians, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Hutchinson, includes note from James Richards, John Jones Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 529-529a