Petition of Hannah Robans

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548326">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548326</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1754-04-03 </p> <p>Petition location: Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Hannah Robans</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1754-04-05,1754-04-05 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on April 5, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 5, 1754 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian woman together with the consent of her Guardians, [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>Native American tribe: Mashpee </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> <p>Additional archivist notes: Hannah Robens, Hannah Robbins, Titicut, Indian guardians, Plymouth county, distemper “King’s Evil” when she was 8 years old, sickness, clothing, measles, debts, doctors, lands, Middleborough, sale, house, buildings, families, deeds, Nathaniel Smith, Gamaliel Bradford, Lawrence, White, Turner, William Shirley, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Hubbard, also signed by Priscilla Turner, includes affidavits, certifications, [note: unique placement of Priscilla Turner's signature, petitioning] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 105, pages 435-437 </p>