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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148834

Date of creation: 1793-06-18

Petition location: Franklin

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

Selected signatures:

1. John Boyd
2. John Ward
3. Isaac Heaton

Actions taken on dates: 1794-02

Legislative action: Referred to a committee in February 1794

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Selectmen of Franklin

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Ceeser, Caesar, support, Asa Pond of Wrentham and Franklin, sold to Wilder of Lancaster, freedom, constitution, pauper, African born, [not sure on second name or on legislative date. See bill of sale for Hosea from Asa Pond of Franklin, MA to Jonathan Butterick of Lancaster, MA in the collection "Slavery in the United States Collection, 1703-1905" at the American Antiquarian Society.]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1794, Docket 1888

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.