DOI: 10.7910/dvn/zfu4nk
title: Petition of Isaac James

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548159"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548159&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;Isaac James&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Ralph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Jethro&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Oliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Ralph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Ralph Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Quansit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Ralph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Crook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Laranine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1757-12-12,1758-03-14,1758-03-14,1758-03-15,1758-03-16,1758-03-17 &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 [no date] and received and read and committed in the Council on March 14, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on March 14, 1758 and reported and received and read and referred to the next session in the Council on March 15, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and 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, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, referred, sent, received, read, 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 ourselves and Brethren Indian Natives of the Towns of Eastham and Harwich in the County of Barnstable and Province afforesd, [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: Potnumeket, Potawaumacut, Potnument, Potanumaquut, Eastham, Harwich, English encroachments, lands, Billingsgate Point, improvements, beach land, whaling, Billingsgate Island, Billingsgate Bay, proprietors, military service, soldiers, veterans, Indian guardians, French and Indian War, fishing, Samuel Smith, Silvanus Snow, whaling houses, buildings, cut thatch, Samuel White, Joseph Robinson, Thomas Pownall, Andrew Oliver, James Minot, Thomas Hubbard, Joseph Cushing, Thomas Clark, William Brattle, Gamaliel Bradford, Edward Bacon, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 10-20, 28-33d] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 10-11a &lt;/p&gt;