Petition of Thomas Bourn

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831370 Date of creation: 1770-03-15 Petition location: Sandwich Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee Selected signatures:Thomas Bourn Actions taken on dates: 1770-04-04,1770-04-06 Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on April 4, 1770 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on April 6, 1770 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Agent for the Town of Sandwich, and in behalf of said Town, agent 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: Thomas Bourne, answer, petitioning, Pocasset, a copy of a copy, [newspaper?], deputy sheriff, taxation, minister, boundaries, William Tobey, Jonathan Tobey, lands, 1768, widows, minor, guardian, upland, Cape Cod, wood, market, salt marsh, houses, buildings, 1763, Tupper, Boston, Mashpee, Indian Meeting House, English, servants, servitude, Falmouth, church, missionary, Monument, Quakers, families, sea, maritime, bays, ponds, water, desert, wilderness, pines, oaks, Buzzard's Bay, religious, Thomas Hutchinson, Jonathan Cotton, Thomas Cushing, Gamaliel Bradford Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 118, pages 406-409