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Petition: Slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909096

Date of creation: 17790000

Top signatures:

1. John Larreguy

Actions taken on dates: 1779-08-11

Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 11, 1779 and read and ordered and permitted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, permitted

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

Identifications of signatories: in behalf of Don John De Miralles, subject of his most Catholick majesty, the king of Spain, residing at Philadelphia

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Catholic, religious, Juan de Miralles, Owen Sullivan, schooner Dolphin, British king, high se
as, Spanish ship Purisima Concepcion Francisco Xavier alias la Vittoria, Don Francisco Ignacio de Urezberoeta, 35 negro slaves, Boston goal, William Greenleaf, sheriff

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.