Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Inhabitants’ Petition Subject The topic of the resource The Freeholders Inhabitants of the Town of Middleton in this Petition Humbly Shew, That they have been Informed that John Peters of Mid has Petitiond your Excellency & Honours to have the Decree of the Hon. Benjamin Greenleaf Judge of Probate for this County appointing Benjamin Wilkins Jr. Administrator with the will annex’d of the Estate of John Wilkins Late of Middleton Deceasd as we apprehend and that he may be appointed in his place to administer, their prayer is that the aforesaid Peters may not have his Prayer Granted as we have good reason to think that if it is although there is in our Judgment a Competency to pay the Debts and maintain with decency the Surviving Widow, he will So Embezzle & destroy the same as that there will not be a Sufficiency for either & that she must become a Town Charge or Suffer for want. – And as in duty bound will ever pray. Middleton Nov. 22, 1780. [right-most column; these appear to have signed first] Elias Smith John Estey John Upton Enos Wilkins John Berry Ephraim Fuller Nehemiah Fuller Daniel Stiles Daniel Stiles Sr[?] Timothy Perkins Sr Timothy Perk[incomplete?, or line is cut off] Ebenezer Stiles Ezekiel Stiles Jonathan Bixby Samuel Lacy Isaac Berry Benjamin Gardner Joseph Fuller Uriah Wilkins Silas Meriam Jeremiah Flint Joseph Hutchinson [middle column] Andrew Eliot Aaron Smith Joseph Nickols Benjamin Nickols Zorobabel Peabody Andrew Peabody Thomas Peabody Joseph Peabody Samuel Symonds Robert Bradford Abraham Gage Joseph Peabody Francis Peabody Joseph Hobbs Benjamin Peabody Francis Peabody Jr [left-most column] Isaac Kenney Asa Kenney Israel Kenney Simon Kenney Samuel Wilkins Andrew Perkins Stephen Eliot Andrew Fuller John Flint Stephen Richardson John Richardson William Thomas Bartholmew Berry Jonathan Kieth [Keith] William Wright Thomas Caul Isaac Giddings Elezer Brown [on the Verso] Nehemiah Wilkins Jonathan Wilkins Eli Curtis Jonathan Lamon Nathaniel Berry Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived [vetted by CHD 9/8] {CommonWealth Massachusetts} To His Excellency John Hancock Esq. and the Honorable Council of said CommonWealth, the Supreme Court of Probate within the same.