DOI: 10.7910/dvn/jy8i1o
title: Petition of Ephraim Williams

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855953"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855953&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1748-10-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &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;Ephraim Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Sergeant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Timothy Woodbridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Woodbridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1748-10-31,1748-11-01,1748-11-02,1748-11-03,1749-06-16,1749-06-17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and committed in the House on October 31, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on November 1, 1748 and reported and received and read and granted and ordered and committed in the Council on November 2, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on November 3, 1748 and received and read and revived in the House on June 16, 1749 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred with amendment in the Council on June 17, 1749 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on June 19, 1749 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 6 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, reported, received, read, granted, ordered, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, revived, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: we the subscribers in behalf of the English & Indian inhabitants of the Town of Stockbridge &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: lands, town elections, town meeting, selectmen, officers, constables, warrant, illegal, without officers, Indian proprietors, committee, Hoosuck, Williamstown, local government, John Worthington, Josiah Willard, Jacob Wendell, Samuel Watts, William Shirley, William Richardson, John Quincy, Joseph Pynchon, Isaac Little, Thomas Hutchinson, Samuel Holbrook, Timothy Dwight, Joseph Dwight, Roland Cotton &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 604-607 &lt;/p&gt;