Petition of Gideon Hawley

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548480 Date of creation: 1779-05-26 Petition location: [Mashpee] Selected signatures:Gideon Hawley Actions taken on dates: 1779-06-26,1779-06-26 Legislative action: Received and granted in the House on June 26, 1779 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 26, 1779 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: clerk & missionary among the Indians and pastor of the Church of Christian Indians at Mashpee in the County of Barnstable 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: western, pasture, cow, salary, London, Great Britain, England, lands, Mashpee, proprietors, reverend, religious, deeds, meadows, house, buildings, Hannah Richards, Mashpee Road, roads, Old Fortune's, trees, Great Road, Ebenezer Crocker, Sandwich, fences, wood, [Sias?], barn, salt meadow, Great Cove, report, Noah Wepquish, Joseph Richards, Gideon Natumpum, Dives Quapesh, Reuben Eldred, males of color, Lemuel Howland, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 359-362] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 223, pages 361-362