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Petition subject: Military

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548378

Date of creation: 1775-05-29

Petition location: Sandwich

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Nathaniel Freeman

Actions taken on dates: 1775-07-01

Legislative action: Committed and ordered to serve a copy of the petition on July 1, 1775

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Committed, ordered

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: the committee of Sandwich

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: Dartmouth, Simeon Wing, Jesse Barlow, vessel, Captain Linsey, Captain Lindsey, Falcon, schooner, Captain Eyery, Thomas Wing, boat, maritime, wood, Nantucket, custom house, Vineyard Sound, sloop, barge, Indian fellow, West Indies, Buzzards Bay, money, committee of correspondence, Ezra Richmond, Frost, Mitchell

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 180, pages 28-29