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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906080

Date of creation: 1782-01-15

Petition location: West Springfield

Selected signatures:

1. Benjamin Davis
2. Eliphalet Leonard
3. Jonathan White

Actions taken on dates: 1782-03-01,1782-03-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 1, 1782 and resolved and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 9, 1782 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: assessors for the town of West Springfield

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Anthony Freeman, veteran, muster, blanket, South Hadley, class, nonresidents, Hampshire

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 236, pages 66-67

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.