Petition of Eli Forbes

Petition subject: Education Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548254 Date of creation: 1768 Petition location: [Brookfield?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Eli Forbes Actions taken on dates: 1768-06-20,1768-06-24 Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on [June 20th, 1768] and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 24, 1768 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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. Additional archivist notes: Reverend, three Mohawk children, Six Nations, allowance, Indian charity school, education, schools, clothing, Peter Warren, Francis Bernard, John Cotton, Thomas Cushing Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 483-484