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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148826

Date of creation: 1788-06-10

Petition location: Dorchester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the petition from the town of Westminster

Selected signatures:

1. Noah Clap
2. Ebenezer Kilton
3. Ezekiel Leeds
4. John How
5. Samuel Coolidge

Actions taken on dates: 1788-06-11,1788-06-12,1788-11,1789-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 11, 1788 and committed to the committee of both houses on a familiar petition from the town of Westminster and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 12, 1788 and concurred and referred in November 1788 and referred on February 16, 1789

Total signatures: 5

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Selectmen of the town of Dorchester

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Boston, Africa, poor negro man imported, slave trade, purchased by one of the inhabitants of Dorchester, slave in several towns, repeatedly sold, freedom, family, infirm state, supplies

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1788, Docket 884

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.