DOI: 10.7910/dvn/iupqaz
title: Petition of John Jones

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548229"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548229&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1765-10-31 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Dedham &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;John Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1765-11-05,1765-11-08,1765-11-08,1766-01-28,1766-01-29,1766-06-04 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on November 5, 1765 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and referred to the next session in the Council on November 8, 1765 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on November 8, 1765 and received and read and committed in the Council on January 28, 1766 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 29, 1766 and received and read and revived and committed in the Council on June 4, 1766 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 4, 1766 and received and reported and referred to the next session in the Council on June 11, 1766 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 11, 1766 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, not concurred, referred, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, received, read, revived, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, reported, referred, sent, received, read, concurred &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: attorney for Samuel Ompany and to Zurviah Ompany wife to the said Samuel Indians both of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County and Province aforesaid, attorney to the sd Indians &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: Samuel Ompany, Zurviah Ompany, inheritance, Natick, diligent, prudent, temperate, sober, circumspect, Gayhead, Gay Head, sale, lands, Indian guardians, house, buildings, missionaries, deeds, Zachariah Mayhew, Joseph Williams, Samuel White, Samuel Waldo, Ebenezer Thayer, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Enos Nash, Josiah Johnson, Thomas Hubbard, Humphrey Hobson, Samuel Dexter, Thomas Cushing, John Cotton, Joseph Buckminster, John Brown, John Bradford, Gamaliel Bradford, Francis Bernard, Jonathan Allen, includes affidavits, certifications, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 348-350, 390-392] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 348-350 &lt;/p&gt;