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Petition subject: Voting rights

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13905998

Date of creation: 1706-03-13

Petition location: Carolina

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Boone
2. Micajah Perry
3. Daniel Wharley

Total signatures: 17

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of the province of Carolina, several merchants of London trading to Carolina and the neighbouring colonies of Her Majesty in America

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional archivist notes: [religious; includes printed address of the House of Lords to Her Majesty on petition of Joseph Boone denouncing religious oppression of laws in Carolina and Her Majesty's answer]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 11, pages 202-205

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.