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Petition subject: Court cases

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909033

Date of creation: 1751-05-29

Petition location: Middleborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee

Selected signatures:

1. Edward Washburn

Actions taken on dates: 1751-06-07,1751-06-08,1751-06-19,1751-06-20,1751-10-04,1751-10-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 7, 1751 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on June 8, 1751 and read and concurred and received in the Council on June 19, 1751 and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 20, 1751 and read and concurred and received in the Council on October 4, 1751 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the House on October 4, 1751 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: yeoman

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Elizabeth Washburn, slander, defamation, false and scandalous report, Peter Caswell, Plimouth, Plymouth, Newport, Daniel Johnson, barn, Indian boy, Rochester, Bridgewater, [additional documents, depositions in volume, sentence on Elizabeth Washburn accusing Peter Caswell of ill treatment and injuring of Indian boy in his service]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 43, pages 434-435

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.