Petition of Desire Jeffry

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548440 Date of creation: 1782-01-16 Petition location: Plymouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Desire JeffryHester Jack Actions taken on dates: 1782-02-09,1782-02-15 Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on February 9, 1782 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred and amended in the Senate on February 15, 1782 and sent for concurrence Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent Females of color signatures: 2 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian women, [females of color] 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: Desire Jeffrey, Desire Jeffery, Herring Pond, to sell lands, sale, Indian guardians, boundaries, Fresh Pond, Thomas Withrel, Thomas Witherell, husbands, widows, improvements, rent, debts, witnesses, deeds, Sandwich, John Bartlett, John Bartlett Jr., Stephen Nye, Ephraim Ellis, Seth Freeman, Nathaniel Gorham, Washburn, Robbins, Samuel Adams, includes affidavits, certifications Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 187, pages 287-289