Petition of Amos Ahauton

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855930 Date of creation: 1744-02-08 Petition location: Stoughton Selected signatures:Amos Ahauton Actions taken on dates: 1744-02-20,1744-02-21 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on February 20, 1744 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 21, 1744 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Ponkapoag 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: Amos Ahaton, to sell lands, sale, house, buildings, consumption, sickness, lame, disabilities, Ponkapoag, Indian guardians, William Shirley, Thomas Cushing, includes affidavits, certifications from John Quincy Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 478-479