Petition of Eleazar Wheelock

Petition subject: Education Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548214 Date of creation: 1763-11 Petition location: Lebanon, Connecticut Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Eleazar Wheelock Actions taken on dates: 1764-02-12,1764-06-09 Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and dismissed on February 12, 1764 and committed on June 9, 1764 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, read, dismissed, committed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: clerk, ["Revd"] 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: Reverend, Indian Charity School, speaking, reading, writing, English, funds, Sir Peter Warren, legacy, schools, Lebanon, Connecticut, Mohawk, Boston, Medford, Plymouth, translators, interpreters, Iroquois, inheritance, education, missionary, religious, Six Nations, accounts, John Worthington, Charles Jeffry Smith, Jonathan Sayward, James Otis, Thomas Morey, Joseph Brant, Daniel Howard, Stephen Hall, Thomas Foster, Thomas Cushing, Francis Bernard, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 241-243] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 239-240a