ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148843

Date of creation: 1803-01-10

Petition location: Deerfield

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

Selected signatures:

1. Asahel Wright Jr.
2. William Stad. Williams
3. Joseph Stebbins

Actions taken on dates: 1803-01-25,1803-01-27,1803-02

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1803 and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1803 and concurred and leave to withdraw in February, 1803

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred, leave to withdraw

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Overseers of the poor of the town of Deerfield

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Charles Paine and his family, a negro man, accounts, support, expenses, habitancy, pauper, state poor, William Clareck, Frenchman, prisoner, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, vigilante, French ship of war, Boston, Colonel Hinsdale, New Hampshire, relict, covertures, Connecticut, widowhood, legacy, [former servant of Abigail Silliman], certificate, depositions, [Charles Paine sold from Providence, Rhode Island as a slave to Seth Daniels of Franklin, Massachusetts in 1770, enlisted in the Continental Army in 1777]. Related: Seth Daniels bill of sale of a negro man, Suffolk County, May 4, 1777 in House of Representatives Unpassed Legislation from the year 1791, Docket 3524.

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1803, Docket 3010

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.