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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208679

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Hanover

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

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Soper
2. Joseph Ramsdell
3. Nathaniel Sylvester

Total signatures: 3

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: selectmen of Hanover in the county of Plymouth

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Samuel Mingo, 1790, a mollato supposed to have a white mother and a negro father, Rhode Island, soldier for the town of Bridgewater, 1792, two of their children, small pox, removal of the other part of the family, expenses, accounts

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1794, c.48, passed February 6, 1795

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.