Petition of Thomas Waban

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855798 Date of creation: 1700 Petition location: Natick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Thomas WabanJames RumnymarshJohn ThomasGeorge OakitchupJonas Mattahanet Actions taken on dates: 1700-05-31,1700-06-06,1700-06-12,1700-06-15 Legislative action: Read on May 31, 1700 and read on June 6, 1700 and committed and received in the House on June 12, 1700 and read and passed and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 15, 1700 Total signatures: 5 Legislative action summary: Read, read, committed, received, read, passed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the Indians the inhabitants at Natick his majesties leige subjects, on the behalfe of themselves & all the inhabitants of Natick, [males 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: Jonas Mattahant, James Rumneymarsh, lands, Dedham, 1400 acres, 40 orchards, 50 cornfields, agriculture, Samuel Morse of Sherborn, Matthew Rice of Sudbury, boundaries, prison, jail, John Bent, Boston, Brookline, Charles River, John Leverett, Isaac Addington, Samuel Aspinwall of Muddy River, Captain Isaac Williams of Newton, Joseph Sherman of Watertown, Thomas Sawin of Natick, Thomas Oliver of Cambridge, William Stoughton, Richard Coote Earl of Bellomont Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, pages 457-457a