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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909005

Date of creation: 1747-03-02

Petition location: Milton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee of war

Selected signatures:

1. Seth Sumner

Actions taken on dates: 1747-03-11,1747-03-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 11, 1747 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on March 11, 1747 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: yeoman attorney to Pompey negro servant to John Lawhead of said Milton nailer and Anne his wife

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Louisbourg, muster rolls, Pompey, Anne, Jesse Covitt, John Lawhead, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Captain Rhodes, military service

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 565-566a

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.