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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25499833

Date of creation: 1783-05

Petition location: Massachusetts

Selected signatures:

1. Nathan Story
2. John Cogswell
3. Jonathan Burnham
4. William Holmes
5. Ammi Burnam
6. Peter Low
7. Isaac Giddings
8. Phinehas Richards

Total signatures: 8

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: subscribers

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: request for pay, money, soldiers in the year 1780, three months service, payments, wages, military service, Captain Benjamin Gould, [includes additional documents, correspondence from Benjamin Gould], [needs conservation]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1783, c.70, passed July 3, 1783

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.