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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500488

Date of creation: 1784-11-05

Petition location: Boston

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

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel White
2. Timothy White
3. Phillips White

Actions taken on dates: 1785-01-25,1785-01-29

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1785 and read and concurred and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1785 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Esq, yeoman, Esq, legatees of William White late of said Boston Esqr deceased testate

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Esquire, Haverhill, Essex county, Suffolk county, Southampton, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, heirs, judge of probate, accounts, will, William White appointed as administrator, molatto named George the servant, to be maintained out of estate until bound out as apprentice, administrator charged accounts for expenses of board clothing and maintenance of George from 1778 to 1781 but George was with Phillip White of Southampton from 1777 to autumn of 1778 and then George was put out to one Jones of Billerica and then bound out as apprentice in summer of 1779 as stipulated in the will to Jones, many other unjust and erroneous charges, liberty to appeal, supreme court of probate, includes note

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1784, c.61, passed February 16, 1785

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.