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Petition subject: Captives in Algiers

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148833

Date of creation: 1794-06-04

Petition location: Haverhill

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee, both Houses on the petition of Moses Brown and others on a similar subject

Selected signatures:

1. Cotton Brook
2. Benjamin Willis
3. James Brickett

Actions taken on dates: 1794-06-10,1794-06-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 10, 1794 and committed to the committee of both Houses on the petition of Moses Brown and others on a similar subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 11, 1794 and concurred

Total signatures: 57

Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Memorialists

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: captivity, Algerines, liberty

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1794, Docket 1885

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.