House Unpassed Legislation 1794, Docket 4043, SC1/series 230, Petition of Moses Brown

Petition subject: Captivity in Algiers Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935261 Date of creation: 1794-06-03 Petition location: Newbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Moses BrownRichard PikeJoseph Edwards Actions taken on dates: 1794-06-06,1794-06-06,1794-06-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 6, 1794, where it was read, committed, and sent for concurrence, and received in the Senate on June 6, 1794 and concurred and referred to a committee on June 19, 1794 Total signatures: 130 Legislative action summary: Resolved, read, referred, sent, received, concurred, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 130 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: captivity, funds, redemption Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1794, Docket 4043 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.