Petition of Seth Freeman

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548425">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548425</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1780-03-14 </p> <p>Petition location: Sandwich </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Seth Freeman</li><li>Micah Blackwell</li><li>Solomon Nye</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the selectmen of the town of Sandwich, selectmen of Sandwich </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>Native American tribe: Mashpee </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> <p>Additional archivist notes: Joshua Coombs, wounded, leg, last French war, amputation, disabilities, soldiers, veterans, Mashpee, accounts, taxation, payments, [“...which your petitioners apprehend ought to be made a publick expense even were there no other reason to to [sic] be given but his being an original native of the land...”] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 186, page 133 </p>