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Petition subject: Military

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548203

Date of creation: 1762-01-27

Petition location: Dartmouth

Selected signatures:

1. John Pequet

Actions taken on dates: 1762-02-15,1762-02-17

Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on February 15, 1762 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 17, 1762

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Native American tribe: Mashpee

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.

Additional archivist notes: military service, soldiers, veterans, allowance, hard labor, cruel sufferings, captivity, Fort William Henry, escape, Crown Point, expeditions, New York, Bristol, Maine, prisoners of war, French and Indian War, accounts, enlistment, Colonel Ezra Richmond, Captain Joseph Ingersoll, Colonel Joseph Frye, Walter Spooner, John Cotton, Francis Bernard

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 194-194a