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Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.167-Revolution Council Papers, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Joshua Giddings

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Title Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.167-Revolution Council Papers, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Joshua Giddings
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5CGGZ
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084

Date of creation: 17770000

Petition location: Ipswich

Top signatures:

  1. Joshua Giddings

Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-16

Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and ordered and read and accepted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, ord
ered, read, accepted

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

Identifications of signatories: NA

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Fortune Ellery, John Cushing, Captain Robert Dodge, [“…he was at great expence in hiring said Fortune to engage in the public service to which services he was not
obliged being a black man…”]

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.


 
Subject accepted
ordered
read
received
Manuscript
Joshua Giddings
NA
1
1
 
Date 1777