DOI: 10.7910/dvn/kddxgi
title: Petition of Jonathan Edwards

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Religion &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548059"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548059&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1752-06-05 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Stockbridge &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;Jonathan Edwards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Woodbridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Pixley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Kaukewenohnaunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Pohpunnehhannowuh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Naunaunekennuk&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jehoiakim Youcun&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Issac Wnaumpey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Pohquunnuppeet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adam Wautaukummeet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paul Waumpeetkhawn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maukk Houwauweet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Naunuhptaug&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Johannes Mtohkson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Mkhuttauwey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wauwaumpequuhnaunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Woohkhquauhhekummeet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1752-06-02,1752-06-02,1752-06-04,1752-06-04,1752-06-05 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on June 2, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 2, 1752 and reported and received and read and sent in the Council on June 4, 1752 and received and read and referred to the next session in the House on June 4, 1752 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 5, 1752 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, sent, received, read, referred, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: us the subscribers inhabitants of Stockbridge, [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: Stockbridge-Munsee &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: parsonage, minister, lands, Reverend, religious, dwelling house, barn, buildings, pastor, Concord, Northampton, missions, clergy, appointments, John Konkapot, Samuel Witt, Samuel Watts, John Tyng, Joseph Pynchon, Eleazar Porter, Spencer Phipps, Andrew Oliver, John Chandler, James Allen, Thomas Clark, Thomas Hubbard, Joseph Wilder, Josiah Willard &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 258-261 &lt;/p&gt;