Petition of Elis Herry

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548074 Date of creation: 1753-04-30 Petition location: Gay Head Selected signatures:Elis HerryAbegell JoelJude JoelBethiah TohqunPashanos TohqunMary QuanisLedy OntokqueMary PaoneeOld Anne PaulOld Sarah PomitOld Buthiah PomitOld Bethiah EsauSarah PaulNaomi GeorgeMartha HenryElis Henry Jr.Abegell HossveitMarkit HossveitThomas TohqunSolomon PaulThomas Tohqun Jr.Joseph JoelJonathan AkoochikSilis JonsonJoseph PomitJoseph PanueNoah KossooJoseph HanrySolomon PaulSilis PaulPeter ObatiahJohn Akoochik Jr.Jude HossveitOld BarapesJethro SauwamogZachary HossveitJohn AckoochikEphraim AbramJeremiah SauwamogSolomon HosweitIssac HosweitJude HosweitElisha AmosJoseph PianeJacob AlomukJoseph AlomuckMathew OnduhqueIsaac AnnoowonnitPilad SawmogSamuel PomitLaban HossveitJonathan PianeAbel GorgeJames Tallman Actions taken on dates: 1753-06-05,1753-06-07 Legislative action: Received and read and referred to the next session in the Council on June 5, 1753 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 7, 1753 Total signatures: 54 Legislative action summary: Received, read, referred, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 16 Males of color signatures: 36 Unidentified signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians Natives of the Gayhead in the County of Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: lands, act, laws, regulation, regulating, leases, English, improvements, planting, agriculture, Indian guardians, Martha's Vineyard, Spencer Phipps, Peter Obediah, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, petitioning, Mary Panue, ["We send Mary Paonnee"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 356-356a