Petition of Samuel Willis

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548714 Date of creation: 1754-04-09 Petition location: Dartmouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Samuel WillisStephen West Actions taken on dates: 1754-04-09,1754-04-09,1754-04-12,1754-04-12 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the Council on April 9, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 9, 1754 and reported and received and read and dismissed in the Council on April 12, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 12, 1754 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, dismissed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: agents for the Town of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: boundaries, Rochester, lands, Elisha Freeman, Plymouth, black oak tree, peaked rock, Naccata Island, Nakata Island, Nakatan Island, common law, deeds, 1652, 1665, King Philip, Pocanacutt, Pokanoket, [Aiushnogg River?], woods, Nakaia Island, compass, cardinal points, English, 1667, Robert Hazard, 1672, 1701, Little Compton, Rhode Island, taxation, Jonathan Cooke, ferry, King Philip's War, John Quincy, Thomas Clark, William Shirley, Thomas Hubbard, John Chandler, White, Joseph Williams, Adams Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 116, pages 519-524