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Petition subject: Court cases

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909029

Date of creation: 1748-01-24

Petition location: Boston

Selected signatures:

1. George Hewes
2. Robert Hewes

Actions taken on dates: 1748-02-01,1748-02-01

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 1, 1748 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on February 1, 1748 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 2

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Boston tanners

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Nathaniel Cunningham, George Hewes, Robert Hewes, Cato, Nero, Quagno, Scipio, Jacob Holyoke, [additional documents in volumes]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 42, pages 805-806

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.