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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909125

Date of creation: 1783-10-06

Petition location: Boston

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

Selected signatures:

1. John Gardiner

Actions taken on dates: 1783-10-06,1783-10-10,1783-10-18,1783-10-18,1783-10-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on October 6, 1783 and read and ordered and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on October 10, 1783 and read and concurred and reported on October 18, 1783 and received in the Senate on October 18, 1783 and read and accepted and sent for concurrence and received in the House on October 20, 1783 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: barrister at law, son of Silvester Gardiner

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional archivist notes: Esquire, estate, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, Silvester Gardiner, physician, British troops, Lincoln, Marlborough Street, Doctor John Gibbins, library of books, University or College of Cambridge, Harvard University, Great Britain, United States of America, Saxons, Roman Empire, Stuart, Queen Ann, Scotland, King George, South Wales, St. Christopher, Saint Christopher, Nevis, West Indies, Whig, John Wilkes, Earls of Halifax and Egremont, Arthur Beardmore, David Meredith, John Entick, The Monitor, Dryden Leach, attorney general, Governor Hancock, Chevalier La Luzurne, British Tories, Anti-American Creoles, France, Philadelphia, William Gardiner, river Kennebeck, lumber, saw mill, timber, Worroamontogus, [additional documents in volumes]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 188, pages 432-433

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.