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Petition subject: Permission to travel

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906040

Date of creation: 1776-07

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

Selected signatures:

1. William Ross
2. Nathaniel Morgan

Actions taken on dates: 1776-07-17,1776-08-07

Legislative action: Received in the Council on July 17, 1776 and read and ordered and committed and reported and received in the Council on August 7, 1776 and read and accepted

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, committed, reported, received, read, accepted

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Island of Jamaica gentlemen

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Jamaica, ship Zachary Bayly, London, Captain Johnson, Boston, England, [additional documents in volumes]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 165, pages 108-109

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.