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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906024

Date of creation: 1756-08-09

Petition location: Rehoboth

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

Selected signatures:

1. Philip Wheeler

Actions taken on dates: 1756-08-17,1756-08-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on August 17, 1756 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on August 17, 1756 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Peleg Church, Indian servant, Captain James Andras, Thacher's regiment, Crown Point expedition, Seth Cushen, Fort William Henry

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 76, page 11

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.