Petition of James

<p>Petition subject: Education </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855797">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855797</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1699-03-20 </p> <p>Petition location: Tiverton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James</li><li>Neby</li><li>George</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1699-03-22,1699-03-22,1699-03-23 </p> <p>Legislative action: Read twice on March 22, 1699 and committed and received in the House and read and passed and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on March 23, 1699 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Read, committed, received, read, passed, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indians in the behalf of themselves & the part of their neighbouring Indians residing in Tiverton in the county of Bristol & thereabouts, [males of color], ["the Indians of Taverton"] </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: friendship, request for a schoolmaster, teacher, religious, pious, grant of land for a settlement, lands, school, Bristol, Nobhow, Richard Coote Earl of Bellomont, Captain Thomas Leonard, Major Benjamin Church, Ebenezer Brenton, Samuel Converse, Isaac Addington, Rhode Island </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, pages 453-454 </p>