Petition of Moses Waban

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855912">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855912</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1743-03-23 </p> <p>Petition location: Natick </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Moses Waban</li><li>Joshua Waban</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1743-03-31,1743-03-31,1743-06-17,1743-06-23,1743-06-20,1743-06-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on March 31, 1743 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on March 31, 1743 and received and read and granted in the House on June 17, 1743 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 23, 1743 and received and read and granted in the House on June 20, 1743 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 22, 1743 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: only surviving sons of Thos Waban late 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: copy, to sell lands, sale, medical bills, doctors, sickness, debts, construction of a house for their mother, English form, widow, building, proprietors, medical care, Thomas Waban, Samuel Bowman, Worcester, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, William Livermore, John Fisher, Thomas Cushing, Roland Cotton, Isaac Coolidge, Samuel Bowman, [legislative dates appear to be incorrect] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 442-444 </p>