Petition of Nehemiah Abel

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855872 Date of creation: 1741-07-08 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Nehemiah AbelJacob MamoetGeorge FeuetMoses WicketEue ChurchLeah ShantomSamuel RobenSolomon TobeRobert PegenIsrail FelixThomas FelixBenjamin WonnoAbel HoswitAbigail FelixMehitable Codment Actions taken on dates: 1741-07-15,1741-07-16,1741-07-30,1741-07-30,1741-12-08,1741-12-09 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on July 15, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on July 16, 1741 and received and read and committed in the Council on July 30, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on July 30, 1741 and reported and received and read and guardians appointed in the Council on December 8, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 9, 1741 Total signatures: 15 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 4 Males of color signatures: 11 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of Ketiticut in the township of Middleborough in the county of Plimouth, widow, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: claims, Titicut lands, Bridgewater, Marlborough, Raynham, trials, Plymouth, lumber, wood, timber, deeds, trespasses, Indian guardians, Pegan, Sachem, Massassoit, Josias, Josies, Osomequin, Osamequin, Samuel Robbins, Israel Felix, Josiah Willard, Nehemiah Washburn, Israel Washburn, Edward Mitchell, John Hobson, John Hall, Thomas Foster, John Cushing, James Boyce, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 317-326] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 317-319a