Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.70-Military, 1680-1703. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Samuel Newell

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906019">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906019</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1695 </p> <p>Petition location: Roxbury </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Newell</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1695-06-05 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1695 and read and granted </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: shipwreck, Canada expedition, six weeks in desert, food, heathen, one year of Indian slavery, French, ransom, allowance, ["...feeding sometimes on rotten wood and sometimes on such vermin as they could find..."], ["…after one year of Indian slavery got to the French which was some what better but still slavery..."] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 70, pages 247-247a </p> <p>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>