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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455109

Date of creation: (unknown)

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

Selected signatures:

1. Benjamin Hichborn
2. Samuel Brown
3. Ebenezer Oliver
4. George Blake
5. John Joy
6. Samuel Parkman
7. Joseph Coolidge
8. Joseph Ward
9. James Parker
10. Joseph Wilson
11. Elias Haskett Derby
12. Benjamin Bussey

Actions taken on dates: 1807-06-13,1807-06-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on June 13, 1807 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 13, 1807 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 33

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: in behalf of themselves and their associates, directors of the New England and Mississippi Land Comy, by his agent B. Jarvis [Benjamin Jarvis], for the estate of Nathl Fellowes [Nathaniel Fellowes] Esq, as executor to the estate of Joseph Barrell Esqr

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: New England and Mississippi Land Company, Yazoo land scandal, Georgia, lands, western territory, the Georgia Mississippi Company, the Georgia Company, the Tennessee Company, the Upper Mississippi Company, gold, silver, Nicholas Long, Thomas Glascock, Ambrose Gordon, Thomas Cumming, Boston, sale, law, act, fraud, grants, documents, burnt, malpractices, courts, judges of the supreme court, notes, congress of the United States, convention, cession, treaty, ultimate protection of their rights

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1807, c.41, passed June 19, 1807

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.