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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906019

Date of creation: 1695

Petition location: Roxbury

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Newell

Actions taken on dates: 1695-06-05

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1695 and read and granted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: shipwreck, Canada expedition, six weeks in desert, food, heathen, one year of Indian slavery, French, ransom, allowance, ["...feeding sometimes on rotten wood and sometimes on such vermin as they could find..."], ["…after one year of Indian slavery got to the French which was some what better but still slavery..."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 70, pages 247-247a

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.