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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548107

Date of creation: 1754

Petition location: Middleborough

Selected signatures:

1. Nelson Finney

Actions taken on dates: 1754-11-15,1754-12-21

Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on November 15, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 21, 1754

Total signatures: 1

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

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

Female only signatures: No

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: Nelson Phinney, Nelson Fenney, Nelson Fenny, Nelson Finny, reimbursement, care of Matthies George, Mathias George, Matthias George, sickness, lands, Stotetown, Stoughton, Ponkapoag, Boston, Bridgewater, Fort Independence, military service, soldiers, veterans, Eastward, Eastern, Castle William, sore, medical care, Indian guardians, Samuel Miller, Mrs. Howard, William Shirley, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 499-500, 630-631, 706-707]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 499-500