Petition of Asa Bement

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909132">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909132</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1781-03-20 </p> <p>Petition location: Stockbridge </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Asa Bement</li><li>David Pixley</li><li>Joseph Shauquethqueat</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: selectmen of the town of Stockbridge, [males of color] </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: Stockbridge-Munsee </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: grist mill, saw mill, Isaac Ball, Samuel Hatch, Hans Viniger, river, Joseph Shauquethqueat, Benjamin Waunchauwut, David Naunauneck, Berkshire, Hannibal, Hanible, Housatonic River, Elihu Miles, John Sergeant, Benjamin Willard, Melatiah Hatch, [with certification] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 232, pages 337-338 </p>