Petition of Patience Thomas

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27023737">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27023737</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1757-08-16 </p> <p>Petition location: Pembroke </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Patience Thomas</li><li>Abigal Osgood</li><li>Caleb Brand</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1757-08-31,1757-08-31 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on August 31, 1757 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on August 31, 1757 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 2 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: wife of Richard Osgood, lately known by the name of Abigal Quason, Indians all of Pembroke in the County of Plimouth, [males of color], [females 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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </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: Mattakeesett, Matakeset, Mattakeeset, Mattakeesit, Abigail Osgood, sole Sachemiss, interest, sale, lands, buildings, house, deeds, Indian guardians, Plymouth, Abigail Quasson, Abigail Quason, Nehemiah Cushing, Israel Turner, yeoman, Richard Osgood, Thomas Pownall, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 1-2 </p>