DOI: 10.7910/dvn/n6emeu
title: Petition of Barnabas Lothrop

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548548"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548548&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1706-05-29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Barnstable &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;Barnabas Lothrop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1706-06,1706-10-29,1706-11-12,1706-11-29,1706-12-04,1708-06-08 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Read in the Council in June 1706 and received and granted in the Council on October 29, 1706 and sent for concurrence and received and read in the House on October 29, 1706 and received and read in the House on November 12, 1706 and received and read and not concurred in the House on November 29, 1706 and received and committed in the House on November 29, 1706 and sent for concurrence and received and read and committed in the Council on December 4, 1706 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 4, 1706 and received and read and granted in the Council on June 8, 1708 and sent for concurrence and received and read and revived in the Council on October 29, 1708 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on October 29, 1708 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Read, received, granted, sent, received, read, received, read, received, read, not concurred, received, committed, sent, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, revived, 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: in Behalfe of himselfe and the heirs of Joseph Lothrop and John Thomson Gentln Deceased &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: lands, William Wetispaquin, Assaweta, heirs, Joseph Lothrop, John Thomson, Plimouth, Plymouth, deeds, Bristol, Rochester, gentlemen, Tiverton, Rhode Island, Freetown, Dartmouth, Middleborough, constable, Ephraim Little, Robert Crossman, Samuel Hinckley, Ephraim Hunt, Samuel Thaxter, Theophilus Cushing, Isaac Addington, Thomas Oakes, Thomas Oliver, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 343-349] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 45, pages 343-345 &lt;/p&gt;