DOI: 10.7910/dvn/wil0uj
title: Petition of John Rolph

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548512"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548512&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1757-11-19 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Harwich &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 Rolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Rolph Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Quonsit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Rafee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Crook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Laranine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac James&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Rolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Jethro&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Oliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1757-12-12,1758-03-15,1758-03-16,1758-03-17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on December 12, 1757 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council and reported and committed and received and read and referred to next session in the Council on March 15, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and not concurred and committed in the House on March 16, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on March 17, 1758 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, committed, received, read, referred, sent, received, read, not concurred, committed, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: In Behalf of Our Selves and Indian Brethren Natives of the Towns of Eastham and Harwich in the County of Barnstable and Province aforesd, [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: Mashpee &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: Eastham, Harwich, Potanumaquut, English, rights, properties, lands, French and Indian War, families, improvements, encroachments, proprietors, beaches, thatch, island, Billingsgate Point, Billingsgate Island, Billingsgate Bay, whaling, fishing, Samuel Smith, Sylvanus Snow, whaling houses, buildings, Indian guardians, military service, Barnstable, sheriffs, Joseph Robinson, Gamaliel Bradford, Edward Bacon, Thomas Hubbard, Andrew Oliver, Thomas Clarke, David Barry, Thomas Pownall, William Brattle, [additional documents in volumes, see v.33, pages 10-20, 28-33d, 48] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 303, pages 84-84c &lt;/p&gt;