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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935262

Date of creation: 1794-06-09

Petition location: Framingham

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

Selected signatures:

1. Cato Hanker

Legislative action: Leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Leave to withdraw

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: African, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Africa, stolen, parents, Boston, Deacon Moses Haven of Framingham, education, shoemaking business, freedom, liberation, Cambridge, taxation, citizen, Ticonderoga, New York, Crown point, West point, Captain Richardson's company, fire, burning of Charlestown, sickness, poverty, support, estate

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1794, Docket 4052

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.