DOI: 10.7910/dvn/fmfcpr
title: Petition of Joseph Pagan

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian guardians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548174"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548174&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1758 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Dudley &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eleazer Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Quitticus&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nanny Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Sarah Pagan?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pashants Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deborah Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Esther Pagan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1758-06-12,1758-06-12,1758-06-14,1758-06-14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 12, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 12, 1758 and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on June 14, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 14, 1758 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 7 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Joseph Pagan, Samuel Pagan, Eleazer Pagan, Hannah Quitticus, Nanny Pagan, Patience Pagan, Mary Pagan, Esther Pagan and Deborah Pagan, [males of color], [females of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Nipmuc &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Pegan, Peagon, Indian guardians, overseers, trustees, proprietors, debts, discharge, removal, dismissal, grass and fruit, lands, agriculture, trespass, Jonathan Pagan plantation, improvements, attorney, military service, soldiers, veterans, cattle, fields, pastures, wood, timber, lumber, dwelling houses, Timothy Woodbridge, Samuel Watts, Thomas Pownall, James Minot, Samuel Livermore, Thomas Hubbard, Joseph Gerrish, Thomas Clark, Ezekiel Cheever &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 61-63 &lt;/p&gt;