DOI: 10.7910/dvn/y45nkr
title: Petition of James Coffin

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548641"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548641&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1708-05-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Nantucket &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Coffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1708-06-14,1708-06-16,1708-06-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and sent in the Council on June 14, 1708 and read on June 16, 1708 and received and read and granted in the House on June 25, 1708 and sent for concurrence &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, sent, read, received, read, granted, sent &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Esqr in behalf of the English Inhabitants & Proprietors of the Island of Nantucket &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;Native American tribe: Aquinnah &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: English, report, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1706, dispute, Martha's Vineyard, lands, cattle, herbage, Sachems, scribe, Indian deeds, wills, forgeries, proprietors, probate, courts, Titicut, Nomans Land, Gayhead, Gay Head, Bridgewater, Middleborough, Barnstable, Boston, Chilmark, New York, 1684, Nashawaquidsee, Squibnoquett Neck, Squibnocket Neck, will of Joseph Mataack, Pamattaquason, Mattaquason, Betty Susamon, Assawomsett Neck, Assawompset Pond, Betty's Neck, Betty Sassamon, father, John Sassamon, Jeptha Spotso, Joptha Spotso, Josiah Wassaman, Isaac Wanno, Nicotamos, Wawinnett, Abigail, Felix, Assomeqin, Chiketabut, Chickatawbut, Assamequin, Stephen Commasunnuin, Josiah Hosewett, [Josiah Hoswit], Japhet, minister, Charles Ahaz, Nolrout, Captain Howdee, Quasson, Kissanumin, Thomas Oliver, Joseph Dudley, John Thatcher, Stephen Skiffe, John Otis, Thomas Oakes, Thomas Mayhew, Matthew Mayhew, John Mayhew, Barnabas Lothrop, Dongan, Isaac Addington, William Bassett, Simon Athearn, translation, language, interpretation, ["...some of which were rendred in English & others then Interpreted to us, by persons well knowing in the Indn Tongue..."], ["...is not truly Translated, we haveing the Original to Compare wth the Copy..."], [additional documents in volumes, see pages 436-440] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 113, pages 436-440 &lt;/p&gt;