Petition of Stephen David

• Main Author: Digital Archive of Native American Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: males of color; Indian man; Manuscript; Committee on the petition of Benjamin Washburn and others; read; committed; No; Mashpee; Stephen David; received; 1; sent; Social Sciences; concurred; Breton Island; Indian; Washburn
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:297f635fd0bd21259496da0d86ef8d6df68982f241b20f9cb1207b5934a763c2

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855964 Date of creation: 1749-11-22 Petition location: Middleborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the petition of Benjamin Washburn and others Selected signatures:Stephen David Actions taken on dates: 1750-01-03,1750-01-03 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on January 3, 1750 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 3, 1750 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: Indian man, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: sale, to sell lands, debts, military service, veterans, soldiers, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Bryant's Bridge, Cape Breton Island, Plymouth, military desertion, imprisonment, jails, Indian guardians, garrisons, Fort Hill, Job Ahaton, Benjamin Washburn, Captain Ebenezer Robinson, Edward Richmond, Samuel Holbrook, Josiah Edson, Joseph Dwight, John Cushing, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 659-660a] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 659-659a