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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906067

Date of creation: 1777-08-27

Petition location: Boston

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

Selected signatures:

1. Ebenezer Dorr

Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-29,1777-09-09

Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 29, 1777 and read and committed and received in the Council on September 9, 1777 and recommitted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, received, recommitted

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: committee of correspondence of the town of Boston, chman [chairman]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Robert Pierpont, prisoners, prison ship, guard ship, paper money, indigo, [additional documents in volumes, including declaration addition by Dick Frost, free negro of Kennedy]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 215, pages 381-382

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.