DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ezbcou
title: Petition of Elizabeth Ombny

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855871"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855871&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1741 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: West Tisbury &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Ombny&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Repakah Hunnet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zachariah Hoswit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Ongrat&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pash Ombny&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Neat Chommock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dorrity Benter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;140 John Kenotommoe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rachal Charles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bengmon Toby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jerusha Toby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Qunhet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Samson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Obediah Nonomit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Charles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Micah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Sooposin Sr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Sooposin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel Suposin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Ompany&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Janoxso Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Cape&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Sooposin Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Ned&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1741-07-23,1741-08-04 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the Council on July 23, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on August 4, 1741 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: 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: 18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of Okokamy or Christian Town, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians of Christian Town"] &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: 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: Okokamy, Okakamy, Christiantown, large quantities of timber carried away illegally, firewood, fences, wood grain alcohol, lands, liquor, lumber, trespass, proprietors, Josiah Willard, Jonathan Belcher, John Hobson, William Tilton, John Allen, Rachel Charles, Thomas Sampson, Martha's Vineyard &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 315-316 &lt;/p&gt;