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Petition subject: Resources

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334456

Date of creation: 1781-09

Petition location: [Bridgewater?]

Selected signatures:

1. Richard Perkins

Actions taken on dates: 1781-09-27

Legislative action: Received and granted in the Council on September 27, 1781

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, granted

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in behalf of David & George Keith of Bridgewater

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: George Keith, David Keith, Bridgewater, slitting mill, nailing rods, workmen, labor, air furnace, Titticut, casting, rollers, gudgeons, three tons of Martha’s Vineyard clay lying at said furance, John Avery

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 178, pages 117-118