Passed Resolves; Resolves 1783, c.27, SC1/series 228, Petition of Richard Stacey

Petition subject: Slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455091 Date of creation: 1783-09-22 Petition location: Marblehead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Richard StaceySamuel GatihelStephen PhillipsWilliam BlacklerSamuel Wait Legislative action: Committed Total signatures: 7 Legislative action summary: Committed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 7 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: selectmen, by order of the town Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: distress, taxation, valuation of 1772 with 52 servants for life, slaves, assessments, poverty, debts, misrepresentations, redress, grievances, Peru, trade, navigation, indigent, houses, lands, property, utensils, industry, employment, furniture, fishery, lament, law suits, threats, selectmen, imprisonment, sale, widows, fatherless children, elections, office, fines, [\"That the servants for life, being by the constitution emancipated, are no longer property-\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1783, c.27, passed October 11, 1783 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.