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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909106

Date of creation: 1775-12-05

Petition location: Cambridge

Selected signatures:

1. John Brown
2. Thomas Nixon
3. William Prescott
4. Ephraim Corey

Actions taken on dates: 1775-12-21

Legislative action: Received in the Council on December 21, 1775 and read and sent and leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 14

Legislative action summary: Received, read, sent, leave to withdraw

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Salem Poor, Colonel Fryes' regiment, Captain Ames, Battle at Charlestown, [this is a recommendation, not a petition, but has previously been identified as a petition]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 180, pages 241-241a

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.