DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ceyvwe
title: Petition of Daniel Takawompbat

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855810"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855810&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1699-05-31 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Natick &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Takawompbat&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Achoogik&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Rumnimarsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abraham Speen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Nehemiah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Thomas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wamsquon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Waban&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Betimee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas Muttahanit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ezrael Bumhainun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Sookomacho&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Beter Ohonauanumit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Monehnain&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Wunnoonagin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Ephraim&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Umpry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Wiser&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Pakatack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1702-06-03,1702-06-06,1702-10-23,1705-06-06,1705-06-06 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Read on June 3, 1702 and received and ordered to grant in the House on June 6, 1702 and sent for concurrence and read and passed in the House on October 23, 1702 and received and ordered in the House on June 6, 1705 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 6, 1705 and agreed in the House &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 19 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Read, received, ordered, sent, read, passed, received, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, agreed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 19 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: the Indian natives of Natick containing about 30 familyes, the remainder of the church of christ there planted, [males 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;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: John Collar Jr., John Eliot, religious, wars, plantations, meeting house, sabbath, buildings, carpenter, sale, 200 acres of lands, church, confirmation, Boston, construction, Reverend Daniel Takawambpait, James Rumneymarsh, James Rumnymarsh, Israel Bumhainun, William Brown, Richard Coote Earl of Bellomont, Thomas Oakes, Isaac Addington, Samuel Converse, includes affidavits, certifications of Thomas Sawin, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 502-504] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, pages 503-504 &lt;/p&gt;