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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909083

Date of creation: 17770000

Petition location: Nantucket

Selected signatures:

1. Paul Hussey

Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-12

Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and read and ordered and permitted

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, permitted

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: New York, captivity, imprisoned, exchange, prisoners, Joseph Waters molatto, Thomas Brown negro, flag of truce, [includes names of 25 American and 15 British prisoners to be exchanged, also see order on page 154, Captain Josiah Godfrey, schooner Speedwell]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 153

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.