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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481285

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Grafton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the petition of Elizabeth Whipple

Selected signatures:

1. Elijah Brooks
2. Perley Goddard
3. Josephus Willard

Actions taken on dates: 1812-02-18

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 18, 1812 and read and committed

Total signatures: 3

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: selectmen and overseers of the poor in the town of Grafton, in behalf of the inhabitants of said town

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Hassanamisco, lands, sale, purchase, seven persons, equal dividend, purchasers, inhabitants, support, paupers, schools, administration of the gospel, preaching, expenses, exemption, taxation, trustees, Indian guardians, interest, proprietors, accounts, E. Bangs attorney, Sarah Burnee, widow, Shelomith Stow, Nantucket, Brazil, Guinea, whaling voyage, Fortune Howland, Grafton, Joseph Fortune, Fortune Burney, Fortune Burnee, Revolutionary War, veteran, military service, desertion, Abigail Burnee, Abigail Printer, Abraham, Anthony, [David Abraham, Joseph Anthony?], [many additional documents in folder]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1811, c.159, passed February 28, 1812

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.