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Petition: Slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909117

Date of creation: 1779-11-01

Petition location: Boston

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

Top signatures:

1. John Winthrop

Actions taken on dates: 1779-11-17,1779-11-17

Legislative action: Received in the Council on Novmber 17, 1779 and re
ad and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on November 17, 1779 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Identifications of signatories: NA

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: South Carolina, twenty negroes, William Vereen, Thomas Todd,
William Henry Lewis, West Indies, British, Brig Hazard, Brig Tyrannicide, [additional documents in volumes]

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.