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Petition: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909143

Date of creation: 17820000

Petition location: Newbury

Top signatures:

1. Samuel Moody
2. Samuel Noyes

Actions taken on dates: 1782-11-01,1782-11-02,1782-11-08,1783-02-17,1783-03-01,1783-03-15

Legislative action: Received in the House on November 1, 1782 and resolved and sent for concurrence and recei
ved in the Senate on November 2, 1782 and read and concurred with amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the House on November 8, 1782 and read and concurred and received in the Senate on February 17, 1783 and read and leave to withdraw and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 1, 1783 and resolved and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 15, 1783 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, resolved, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, leave to withdraw, sent, received, resolved, sent, received, read, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Identifications of signatories: guardians and next friends of three poor children belonging to one Joel Weed

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Joel Weed, Jeremiah Pearson, Essex, American Army, soldier, veteran, military service, manumission, freedom, house land, Sarah Weed, trespasser, John Hale, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 251-254]

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.