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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548185

Date of creation: 1760-01-02

Petition location: Bridgewater

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

Selected signatures:

1. Jonathan Woods
2. James Keith

Actions taken on dates: 1760-02-04,1760-02-08

Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on February 4, 1760 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 8, 1760

Total signatures: 2

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

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: Stephen David, Teticut, Titicut, lame, [rheumatism], gout, families, winter, debts, supplies, provisions, clothing, lands, sale, payments, Albany, New York, Indian guardians, accounts, justices of the peace, fences, deeds, Samuel White, Israel Turner, Nathaniel Smith, Thomas Pownall, Samuel Phillips, Andrew Oliver, Josiah Edson Jr., Thomas Clapp, includes affidavits, certifications

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 118-120a