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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448097

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Brown, Boston; committee on probate and chancery

Selected signatures:

1. William H. Aiken
2. Thomas Dalton

Actions taken on dates: 1869-03-05

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1869 and referred to the committee on probate and chancery

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Males of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: resident of Boston, treasurer of Zions Methodist Episcopal Church, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Eliza A. Green, will, wife, children, property, two witnesses instead of three, estate, state treasurer, no relatives or legal heirs, Zions Methodist Episcopal Church Society of Boston, Nancy Priscilla Aiken, bond, wearing apparel, clothing, green shawl, Eliza Shelby, watch, chain, Elizabeth Blanche Aiken, daughter of Nancy, money, funeral expenses, debts, George H. Chapman, in trust, executor, G.S. Reed, Andrew J. Clark, Summer Street, Tremont Street, [includes copy of Eliza A. Green's will], religious

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1869, c.45, passed May 6, 1869

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.