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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448115

Date of creation: (unknown)

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

Selected signatures:

1. Isaac Stephens

Legislative action: Report not accepted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Report not accepted

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: native of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: seafaring line of life [shipping, voyages, fishing, marine, maritime], Boston, Cadiz, Algier ship, Algiers, corsair, galley, dirty water, black bread filled with vermen, strangers to his religion, slave, slavery, plague, land of bondage, health, captive, captivity, house, lands, wife, children, chairty, property, infidels, [needs conservation]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1798, Docket 4713

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.