Petition of Nehemiah Washburn

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855932 Date of creation: 1744-02-08 Petition location: [Bridgewater?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Nehemiah WashburnJames BoiesIsrael Washburn Actions taken on dates: 1744-02-23,1744-02-24,1744-02-27,1744-03-02 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on February 23, 1744 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 24, 1744 and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on February 27, 1744 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on March 2, 1744 Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: gent, yeoman, yeoman 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: James Boyce, gentleman, Milton, Bridgewater, Middleborough, includes affidavits, certifications from males of color, John Simon, Benjamin Wanno, Benjamin Wonno, Job Ahaughton, Job Ahaton, Stephen David, land dispute, boundaries, lands, Edward Mitchell, sale, Titicut, Boston, Indian guardians, debts, house, buildings, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Sylvester Richmond, George Leonard, John Godfrey, Thomas Cushing, John Cushing, Thomas Clapp, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 482-484a, 490-491] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 482-484a