Petition of Josiah Speen

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855870 Date of creation: 1741-09-26 Petition location: Natick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Josiah Speen Actions taken on dates: 1741-12-09,1742-01-20,1742-03-24,1742-03-26,1742-03-27,1742-04-07 Legislative action: Received and read and laid on the table on December 9, 1741 and received and referred to next session on January 20, 1742 and received and read and not committed on March 24, 1742 and received and committed on March 26, 1742 and received and read and granted in the House on March 27, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and committed in the Council on April 7, 1742 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 9, 1742 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, tabled, received, referred, received, read, not committed, received, committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, not concurred, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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 common lands, sale, reimburse Deacon Jonathan Rice of Sudbury for supplies stolen by his son Daniel Speen, who was a servant in Rice's house, servants, let out, proprietors, larceny, debts, satan, sin, religious, sorrow, compassion, tenderness, bearing testimony, repentance, reformation, reparation, loss, damage, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, John Jones, John Hobson, Francis Foxcroft, John Fisher, Isaac Coolidge, Andrew Burley, Samuel Bancroft Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 312-313