Petition of Sarah Berry

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906059">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906059</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1781-01-19 </p> <p>Petition location: Stoughton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Sarah Berry</li><li>Mingo Hawkins</li><li>Jerusha Hawkins</li><li>Isaac Williams</li><li>Elizabeth Williams</li><li>Jacob Wilbor</li><li>Mary Wilbor</li><li>Hannah Will</li><li>Sarah Will</li><li>Daniel Will</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 10 </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 6 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal heirs to the Indian land called the six hundred acres lying in Stoughton within the county of Suffolk, [males of color], [females 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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Native American tribe: Massachusetts, Ponkapoag </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: Ponkapoag, taxes, wood, land, guardians </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 187, page 11 </p>