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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455097

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lexington

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

Selected signatures:

1. John Simonds

Legislative action: Committed

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Committed

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: John Symonds, John Vassall, estate, probate, Middlesex county, Cambridge, Jonathan Sewall, claims, wills, absentee, demands, [additional documents, includes receipts and depositions that mention "Vassells negro child", 1770 to 1775, negro male child, about six weeks old, remained in Simonds care for about eleven months and then died]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1784, c.51, passed November 5, 1784

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.