Petition of John Kushshaump

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548091 Date of creation: 1753-12-05 Petition location: Stockbridge Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Worthington Selected signatures:John Kushshaump Actions taken on dates: 1754-01-25,1754-01-25 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on January 25, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 25, 1754 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee 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: John Kuskshaump, John Skusshaump, paralysis, disabilities, your petitioner has but one child and he has left your petitinr and gone to the most distant tribes to the west, wife, wood land, sale, to sell lands, Colonel John Worthington, investigation, sickness, charity, letter to David Mosley from Timothy Woodbridge, Boston, William Shirley, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 431-432] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 435-435a