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Petition subject: Slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909096

Date of creation: 1779

Selected signatures:

1. John Larreguy

Actions taken on dates: 1779-08-11

Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 11, 1779 and read and ordered and granted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, granted

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in behalf of Don John De Miralles, subject of his most Catholick majesty, the king of Spain, residing at Philadelphia

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Catholic, religious, Juan de Miralles, Owen Sullivan, schooner Dolphin, British king, high seas, Spanish ship Purisima Concepcion Francisco Xavier alias la Vittoria, Don Francisco Ignacio de Urezberoeta, 35 negro slaves, Boston gaol, William Greenleaf, sheriff

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 170, pages 321-322

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.