Resolve on the Petition of Jane Tackanash to the Massachusetts General Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives June 5, 1783

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On the petition of Jane Tackanash, an Indian woman, resolved that the prayer of the said petition be so far granted that the petitioner be allowed to make out her accounts for the service done as mentioned in the said petition and present the same to the Judge of Probate for the County of Dukes County to be by him examined, and that such sum as appears to the said Judge to be due to the petitioner [1] be allowed[2] and be it further [3] resolved that after the examination and allowance of the said account, either in whole or in past by the said Judge, Ebenezer Smith, Esq., be and is hereby authorized and empowered to make sale of so much of the real estate of the deceased, Peter Pauls, as shall satisfy the said debt; and to give good and sufficient conveyance than of to any person, purchaser, or purchasers,’ he the, said Ebenezer Smith, Esq., first giving bond with sufficient sureties to the said Judge of Probate, that the net proceeds of such sale shall be applied for the purposes aforesaid. Sent up for concurrence Tristram Dalton, Speaker.  In Senate, June 14, 1783

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