Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.221-Revolution Resolves, 1779. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Betty Pote

Petition subject: Permission to travel Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906070 Date of creation: 1779-01-29 Petition location: Falmouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Betty Pote Actions taken on dates: 1779-04-12,1779-04-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 12, 1779 and resolved and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on April 13, 1779 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, resolved, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Female signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: wife of Jeremiah Pote, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Cumberland, prisoner, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, New York, flagg, Ezekiel Sawyer, ["…if said negro woman consenting thereto…"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 221, pages 448-449 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.