Order on the Petition of Mary Tom and Moses Fiske to the Governor Pownall and the Massachusetts General Court

In the House of Representatives April 21, 1760

Ordered that the prayer of the petition be so far granted that Moses Fiske, administrator on the estate of Mary Pogenit,1 deceased, be and is hereby empowered in his said capacity to make sale of so much of the real estate of Mary Tom, the petitioner, where it will be least prejudicial to her as will be sufficient to pay the just debts of her late mother Mary Pogenit and to provide some necessaries for said Mary Tom, which she wants and shall be approved of by the Guardians of the Natick Indians for the most the same will fetch and to execute a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance thereof in the law, he observing the directions of the law respecting the sale of real estates by executors and administrators and giving sufficient caution to the Judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex to apply the proceeds thereof for the purposes mentioned and duly to account for his proceedings therein.

Sent up for Concurrence.  Samuel White, Speaker.  In Council, April 22, 1760.  Received and concurred, Andrew Oliver, Secretary.  Consented to Thomas Pownall

• 1. Mary Pogenit Printer died in Grafton, Massachusetts sometime before April 19, 1728. Bound Volume 2: Accounts of Hassanamisco Indian Trustees, 1727-1772, Earle Papers, American Antiquarian Society.