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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909119

Date of creation: 17800000

Petition location: Cambridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee

Selected signatures:

1. Anthony Vassall
2. Cuby Vassall

Actions taken on dates: 1780-09-28

Legislative action: Received in the Council on September 28, 1780 and read and ordered and committed and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, committed, sent

Females of color signatures: 1

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: yeoman, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional archivist notes: Penelope Vassall, John Vassall, absentee, land, taxes, rent, Middlesex

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 186, pages 313-314

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.