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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906076

Date of creation: 1781-02-27

Petition location: Lincoln

Selected signatures:

1. James Parks

Actions taken on dates: 1781-02-27,1781-02-27,1781-03-05,1781-03-07

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 27, 1781 and read and ordered and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 27, 1781 and read and concurred and received in the Senate on March 5, 1781 and resolved and read and accepted and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 7, 1781 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received , read, ordered, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, resolved, read, accepted, sent, received, read, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Bacchus Cockran, Baccus Cockran, Bachus Cockran, James Russell, Lexington, Middlesex, Boston, John Codman, Chambers Russell, beating, violence, confined, gaol, continental soldier, continental army

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 232, pages 1-2

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.