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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148837

Date of creation: 1794-06-17

Petition location: Westfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Standing committee on applications for unclaimed balances

Selected signatures:

1. Aaron Bush

Actions taken on dates: 1794-06-21,1794-06-23

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 21, 1794 and committed to the standing committee on applications for unclaimed balances and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 23, 1794 and concurred and to lie and referred to next session

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred, to lie, referred to next session

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Yeoman, administrator on the estate of Francisco a negro man

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Francisco, Hampshire county, estate, balance, [not sure on legislative action and order]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1794, Docket 1896

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.