151 research outputs found
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.32-Indian, 1750-1757. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Scipio Lock
No full textPetition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906003 Date of creation: 17540000 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:Scipio Lock Total signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a free negro man of Boston, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Elizabeth Pumham, Stoughton, Colonel Miller, Major Shephard, Governor Shirley, [small pox?], [Ponkapoag?] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, page 459 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.167-Revolution Council Papers, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Joshua Giddings
No full textPetition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084 Date of creation: 17770000 Petition location: Ipswich Selected signatures:Joshua Giddings Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-16 Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and ordered and read and accepted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, ordered, read, accepted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Fortune Ellery, John Cushing, Captain Robert Dodge, [“…he was at great expence in hiring said Fortune to engage in the public service to which services he was not obliged being a black man…”] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 162 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.70-Military, 1680-1703. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Samuel Newell
No full textPetition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906019 Date of creation: 16950000 Petition location: Roxbury Selected signatures:Samuel Newell Actions taken on dates: 1695-06-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1695 and read and voted to be paid Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, voted, paid Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: shipwreck, Canada expedition, six weeks in desert, heathen, one year of Indian slavery, French, ransom, allowance, ["...feeding sometimes on rotten wood and sometimes on such vermin as they could find..."] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 70, pages 247-247a 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.165-Revolution Council Papers, 1776. SC1/series 45X, Petition of William Williams
No full textPetition subject: Permission to travel Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909076 Date of creation: 17760000 Selected signatures:William Williams Actions taken on dates: 1776-09-11 Legislative action: Received in the Council on September 11, 1776 and read and ordered and permitted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, permitted Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: an African, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Africa, Jamaica, London, England, Captain Archibald Duthie, schooner Sturdy Begger, Captain Peter Lander, Salem, rheumatism, West Indies, William Ross, Boston, Nathaniel Morgan, Great Britain Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 165, page 228 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.165-Revolution Council Papers, 1776. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Richard Pyne
No full textPetition subject: Permission to travel Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909078 Date of creation: 17760000 Selected signatures:Richard Pyne Actions taken on dates: 1776-09-27 Legislative action: Received in the Council on September 27, 1776 and read and ordered and permitted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, permitted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Lettis and Hay of the island of St. Michael's, Saint Michael, St. Michael, Barbados, "design to carry slaves," slave trade, West Indies, schooner Hancock, Lynn, ship William, Benjamin Moore, William Ross, Great Britain, England, Nathaniel Morgan, [also see pages 295-295a] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 165, pages 293-294 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.</p
Council; Council Files August 29, 1845, Case of Orrin de Wolf, GC3/series 378, Petition of Levi D. Smith
No full textPetition subject: Execution case Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233013 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Stoneham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: "To be left at the office of the Hangman, 38 Cornhill Boston" Selected signatures:Levi D. SmithJohn SpragueJohn J. Brown Total signatures: 21 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 21 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Orrin de Wolf Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, August 29, 1845, Case of Orrin de Wolf 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.66-Maritime, 1759-1775. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Timothy Fitch
No full textPetition subject: Slave trade Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909055 Date of creation: 17680000 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:Timothy Fitch Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: merchant Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: vessel, beef, fish, lumber, West Indies, Carolina beef, import, export, market, bond for landing, ["...only suitable for the negros in the West Indies…"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 66, page 445 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.</p
House Unpassed Legislation 1903, H 1132 adopted resolutions, SC1/series 230, Petition of B.R. Berkeley
No full textPetition subject: World Legislature Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950586 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin C. Dean, Brookline; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:B.R. BerkeleyHerbert Judson WhiteEdward H. AthertonMary Adelaide LoveringEleanor Ober StoneSarah L. DarisCaroline S. AthertonJohn W. DoleHarriet H. Dole Actions taken on dates: 1903-02-09,1903-02-09 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1903 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1903 and concurred Total signatures: 11 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 Female signatures: 5 Unidentified signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, master of Girls' Latin School, Pres. of "Women in Council", [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Rev., Reverend, congress of the United States, president, international congress, treaties, legislative body to serve all mankind, race, towns next to names including Beverly, Boston, Lynn, Roxbury, ["We regard the union of the sovereign states of the United States of America as a fitting illustration of the possible union of the sovereign nations into the recognized body politic of mankind. As the several sovereign states voluntarily relinquished certain of their claims of sovereignty and thus realized a higher political unity, so a grander union of mankind than is possible by international treaties will be realized when the nations, surrendering their claims of sovereignty in such respects as shall be found necessary and practicable, come formally into the unity in which they already exist by the very laws of their being."] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1903, H 1132 adopted resolutions 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.36-Inter-charter, 1690-1691. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Robert Watson
No full textPetition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906006 Date of creation: 16910000 Petition location: [Boston?] Selected signatures:Robert Watson Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Colonel Samuel Shrimpton, negro Dick, [see volume for additional documents, depositions: pages 443-447, Robert Watson’s case, concerning assault on Colonel Shrimpton’s negro servant, Dick, with intent to kill, face cut, “etc.”, with order, depositions, complaints, and petition and confession of R. Watson, petition on page 447, ca. April 1691] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 36, page 447 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.</p
Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.19A-Estates, 1753-1774. SC1/series 45X, Petition of John Schuchardt
No full textPetition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908979 Date of creation: 17550000 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:John Schuchardt Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Sarah Libby, Sarah Libbie, Elizabeth Tufton, Thomas Tufton, Mayes with Goold or Gould, Valentine with Tufton, [see volume for additional documents] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 19a, pages 319-320 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.</p
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