Petition of Samuel Thomas

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855851 Date of creation: 1739-05 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Samuel Thomas Actions taken on dates: 1739-06-30,1739-12-21,1739-12-27,1740-01-02 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 30, 1739 and reported on December 21, 1739 and received and read and granted in the House on December 27, 1739 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 2, 1740 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian planter, [males of color] 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: to sell lands in Middleborough to Samuel Thatcher, sale, hill, Chesaumuttuck, fences, firewood, timber, mill pond, improvement, Indian plantation, Plymouth county, Titicut, Boston, lumber, Indian guardians, includes affidavits, certifications of Benjamin White and Ezra Clapp, Elkanah Leonard, Simon Frost, John Cushing, John Alden, Jonathan Belcher Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 245-246