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Petition subject: Religion

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548406

Date of creation: 1777-11

Petition location: Massachusetts

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

Selected signatures:

1. Zechariah Mayhew
2. Gideon Hawley

Actions taken on dates: 1777-11-28,1777-12-01

Legislative action: Committed and ordered

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Committed, ordered

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: Zachariah Mayhew, missionaries, gospel, churches, religious, sabbath, England, Great Britain, Chilmark, Mashpee, Dukes County, Barnstable County, exemption from taxation, Wendell, Jeffries, Niles

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 183, page 277