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Petition subject: Court cases

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909020

Date of creation: 1741-03-25

Petition location: Boston

Selected signatures:

1. George Hewes
2. Robert Hewes

Actions taken on dates: 1741-04-03,1741-04-03,1741-08-01,1742-04-10,1742-04-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 3, 1741 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on April 3, 1741 and read and concurred and received in the Council on August 1, 1741 and read again and ordered to be dismissed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 10, 1742 and motion to be revived and ordered and voted and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on April 10, 1742 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, ordered, dismissed, sent, received, motion, ordered, voted, sent, received, read, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Boston tanners

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Nathaniel Cunningham, George Hewes, Robert Hewes, Cato, Nero, Quagno, Scipio, Christopher Lawton, [additional documents in volumes]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 41, pages 649-651

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.