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Petition subject: Captivity in Algiers

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935261

Date of creation: 1794-06-03

Petition location: Newbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Moses Brown
2. Richard Pike
3. Joseph Edwards

Actions taken on dates: 1794-06-06,1794-06-06,1794-06-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 6, 1794, where it was read, committed, and sent for concurrence, and received in the Senate on June 6, 1794 and concurred and referred to a committee on June 19, 1794

Total signatures: 130

Legislative action summary: Resolved, read, referred, sent, received, concurred, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 130

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: captivity, funds, redemption

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1794, Docket 4043

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.