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Petition: Slave trade

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909053

Date of creation: 17500000

Top signatures:

1. William Bollan

Total signatures: 1

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Identifications of signatories: agent for his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay

Prayer format was
printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional archivist notes: Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, rum, molasses, Guinea, Newfoundland, southern part of North America, furs, skins, Indian trade, vessels, trade at sea, mackarel, smaller fish, West Indies, cod fishery, whale fishery, gulf and river of St. Lawrence, shipping, bread corn, pork, refuse fish, British bankers, European sale, gold, England, slaves, sugar, bills
of exchange, Guadeloupe, Martinico, Martinique, late war, English plantations, English distillery, St. Eustatius, northern colonies, French islands, acts of navigation, Canadian war, parliament, husbandmen, manufacturers, duty, duties, taxes, import, export [with separate list of reasons offered]

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.