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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906058

Date of creation: 17790000

Petition location: Falmouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on petitions for the sale of lands

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Child

Actions taken on dates: 1779-11-27,1779-11-29

Legislative action: Read and committed to the committee on petitions for the sale of lands on November 27, 1779 and order to lie on November 29, 1779

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Read, committed, order to lie

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

Female only signatures: No

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Cumberland, Francis Waldo, absentee, Lincoln

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 186, pages 13-14

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.