Petition of John Smith

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855738">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855738</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1659-10-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Charlestown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Smith</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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: Sudbury, lands taken from Jethro and Simon, Simond, Indians, for debt be confirmed to him, William Torrey, Anthony Stoddard, Thomas Danforth, Roger Chase, [additional documents in volumes, see page 82a] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 82 </p>