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Petition subject: Slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909874

Date of creation: 1704-10-10

Petition location: Eastham

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Smith

Actions taken on dates: 1704-11-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on November 9, 1704 and read and resolved that the sum of three pounds be allowed and paid out of the publick treasury to Samuel Knowles in behalfe and on account of the petitioner in consideration of the service abovesaid and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, resolved, sent

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: John Manasses, Major Church, expedition, Eastward, Captain Jethro an Indian

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 499A

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.