Petition of Nathaniel Sterns

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855767">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855767</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1681-10-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Dedham </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathaniel Sterns</li><li>Thomas Fuller</li><li>Timothy Dwight</li><li>Richard Ellis</li><li>Thomas Metcalf</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1681-10-20 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred on October 20, 1681 </p> <p>Total signatures: 5 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the selectmen of Dedham </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Nipmuc </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: request that Indians live separately from the English, proud and surly behavior in refusing to take notice of an English man if [they] meet him in the street, corn, provisions, fields, agriculture, cattle, woods, dogs, houses, guns, arms, work, labor, hunting, deer, skins, Natick, Boston, drunkenness, intoxication, liquor, alcohol, William Torrey </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 261a </p>