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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906068

Date of creation: 1778-02-23

Petition location: Sturbridge

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

Selected signatures:

1. Henry Clark
2. Benjamin Alton
3. Samuel Healy

Actions taken on dates: 1778-02-25,1778-02-26,1778-02-26

Legislative action: Received in the Council on February 25, 1778 and read and sent and received in the House on February 26, 1778 and read and ordered and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on February 26, 1778 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Captain, Jonathan Holman, Rhode Island, Dudley, Charlton, Providence, General Spencer, Warwick, General Cornell, Newtown, North ferry, Boston neck, provisions, ["…were obliged to buy of the Negros the dryd crusts they had laid by for the swine…"], [additional documents in volumes]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 217, pages 241-242

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.