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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906073

Date of creation: 1780-05-01

Petition location: Shrewsbury

Selected signatures:

1. Peter Semer Haskel
2. William Wood

Actions taken on dates: 1780-05-05,1780-05-05

Legislative action: Received in the House on May 5, 1780 and resolved and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on May 5, 1780 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, resolved, granted, sent, received, read, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: soldiers of the troops of the Convention of Saratoga, [males of color?]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Peter Semer Hackel

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 228, pages 19-20

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.