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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935274

Date of creation: 1807-05-19

Petition location: Sheffield

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

Selected signatures:

1. Moses Hubbard
2. Joseph Willcox
3. Noah E. Hubbard

Actions taken on dates: 1807-06-01

Legislative action: Committed June 1, 1807 and leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Referred to a committee, leave to withdraw

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: selectmen of Sheffield

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Guy Negro, African, Continental Army, freedom

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1807, Docket 5966

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.