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Petition: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906030

Date of creation: 1749-03-22

Petition location: Salem

Top signatures:

1. Benjamin Lynde
2. Richard Derby
3. Joshua Ward
4. Francis Cabot
5. Epes Sargent
6. Warwick Palfray

Actions taken on dates: 1750-04-07,1750-04-07,1750-04-12,1750-04-12

Legislative action: Received in the House
on April 7, 1750 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on April 7, 1750 and read and concurred and received in the Council on April 12, 1750 and read again with answer and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 12, 1750 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 42

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Identifications of signatories: some of the inhabitants

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additiona
l archivist notes: assessment, taxes, rates, vessels, trading stock, King George I, valuations

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.