Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.31-Indian, 1705-1750. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Sarah Burnee

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909006">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909006</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1750-03-22 </p> <p>Petition location: Grafton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Sarah Burnee</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1750-03-30,1750-04-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Council on March 30, 1750 and read and ordered that the prayer of the petition be granted and the petitioner is allowed and impowered (with the advice and consent of the trustees for the Hassanamisco Indians) to sell the two lots of land within mentioned; the produce thereof to be disposed of by the said trustees for the purposes mentioned in the petition and they to be accountable to this court and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 2, 1750 and read and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: an Indian of Grafton alias Hassmamisco in the county of Worcester, [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Hassanamisco, Sarah English, Sarah Robbins, Sarah Whipple, Sarah Whippel, [Sarah Pec?], John Chandler, Edward Baker </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, page 694 </p> <p>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.</p>