ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Permission to travel

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906070

Date of creation: 1779-01-29

Petition location: Falmouth

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

Selected signatures:

1. Betty Pote

Actions taken on dates: 1779-04-12,1779-04-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 12, 1779 and resolved and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on April 13, 1779 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Female signatures: 1

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: wife of Jeremiah Pote, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Cumberland, prisoner, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New York, flagg, Ezekiel Sawyer, ["…if said negro woman consenting thereto…"]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 221, pages 448-449

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.