DOI: 10.7910/dvn/dhzavv
title: Petition of Nehemiah Abel

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855872"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855872&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1741-07-08 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Middleborough &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;Nehemiah Abel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Mamoet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Feuet&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Wicket&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eue Church&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leah Shantom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Roben&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Tobe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Pegen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Israil Felix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Felix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Wonno&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Hoswit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Felix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitable Codment&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1741-07-15,1741-07-16,1741-07-30,1741-07-30,1741-12-08,1741-12-09 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on July 15, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on July 16, 1741 and received and read and committed in the Council on July 30, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on July 30, 1741 and reported and received and read and guardians appointed in the Council on December 8, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on December 9, 1741 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 15 &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, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 4 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of Ketiticut in the township of Middleborough in the county of Plimouth, widow, [males of color], [females 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;Signatory column format: not column separated &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: claims, Titicut lands, Bridgewater, Marlborough, Raynham, trials, Plymouth, lumber, wood, timber, deeds, trespasses, Indian guardians, Pegan, Sachem, Massassoit, Josias, Josies, Osomequin, Osamequin, Samuel Robbins, Israel Felix, Josiah Willard, Nehemiah Washburn, Israel Washburn, Edward Mitchell, John Hobson, John Hall, Thomas Foster, John Cushing, James Boyce, Jonathan Belcher, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 317-326] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 317-319a &lt;/p&gt;