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Petition subject: Court cases

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448114

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Barre

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

Selected signatures:

1. Nathaniel Jennison

Total signatures: 1

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

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: [ten negro servants, religious; "But whatever may be the determination of this honble court upon the point in question, your mem-o prays that if the servant is set free, the master may be free too, if there is reason for the one there certainly is reason for the other, for it is no where to be found in Revelation, that Christians shall be bond men to the Heathen or Negroes - which is really the unhappy situation of every person that ever owned a negro servant - who is at liberty while the master by law is bound to maintain and support him in sickness and health altho' he can have no control over him..."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1782, Docket 956

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.