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Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.180-Revolution Petitions, 1775-1776. SC1/series 45X, Petition of John Brown

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Title Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.180-Revolution Petitions, 1775-1776. SC1/series 45X, Petition of John Brown
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CEA5K
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909106

Date of creation: 1775-12-05

Petition location: Cambridge

Top signatures:

  1. John Brown
  2. Thomas Nixon
  3. William Prescott
  4. Ephraim Corey

Actions taken on dates: 1775-12-21

Legislative action: Received in the Council on December 21, 1775 and read and sent and leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 14

Legislative action summary: Received, read, sent, leave to withdraw

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14

Identifications of signatories: NA

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Salem Poor, Colonel Fryes' regiment, Captain Ames, Battle at Charlestown, [this
is a recommendation, not a petition, but has previously been identified as a petition]

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.
 
Subject leave to withdraw
read
received
sent
Manuscript
Ephraim Corey
John Brown
Thomas Nixon
William Prescott
NA
14
14
 
Date 1775-12-05