Petition of Jonathan Dewing

<p>Petition subject: Court cases </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855886">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855886</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1742-01-05 </p> <p>Petition location: Natick </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Jonathan Dewing</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1742-01-07,1742-01-08,1742-01-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on January 7, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred with amendment in the Council on January 8, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 9, 1742 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: husbandman, attor to Jonathan Dewing </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: Nipmuc </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: Josiah Richardson, attorney, judgement against Nathaniel Coochuck, Nathaniel Coohuck, bastard child, did not repay loan, Charlestown, Natick, sheriffs, lands, imprisonment, jails, debts, court of common pleas, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Joseph Livermore, John Hobson, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 363-367] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 363-364a </p>