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Petition subject: Permission to travel

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909086

Date of creation: 1777-10-13

Petition location: Boston

Selected signatures:

1. Cupid Love

Actions taken on dates: 1777-10-13

Legislative action: Received in the Council on October 13, 1777 and read and ordered and granted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, granted

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a negro, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Halifax, Bay of Fundy, Captain Martin, Ipswich, prisoner of war

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 326

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.