Petition of Moses Speen

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855925">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855925</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1743-12-14 </p> <p>Petition location: Natick </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Moses Speen</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1744-02-09,1744-02-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on February 9, 1744 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 9, 1744 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian, one of the proprietors of the town of plantation of Natick in sd province, [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: 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: to sell lands, debts, sale, sickness, numb palsy, disabilities, lameness, daughters, families, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Cushing, Isaac Coolidge </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 469 </p>