Petition of Giles Slocum

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548622">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548622</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1700 </p> <p>Petition location: Dartmouth </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Giles Slocum</li><li>Joseph Allen</li><li>William Earll</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1700-03-14,1700-03-15,1700-03-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Read in the House on March 14, 1700 and committed and reported and received and read and granted in the House on March 15, 1700 and sent for concurrence and read in the House on March 16, 1700 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Read, committed, reported, received, read, granted, sent, read </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the purchasers of Dartmouth by their Agents </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: Mashpee </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: boundaries, 1640 grant, Boston, Bristol, Rhode Island, Westport River, Coxet River, proprietors, New Plymouth Colony, lands, freemen, Nathaniel Paine, Ebenezer Brenton, William Bassett, James Converse, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 162-166, 204-205a] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 113, pages 206-207 </p>