Passed Resolves; Resolves 1783, c.62, SC1/series 228, Petition of William Brown

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455213">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455213</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Framingham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ebenezer Bridge, Middlesex; standing committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Brown</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: in behalf of the town of Framingham </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Abel Benson, Prince McNeil, Thaddeus Hemingway, military service, taxation, tax bill, deficiency, seven men, Continental army, three years, raised, mustered, fines, remit </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1783, c.62, passed July 2, 1783 </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>