Passed Resolves; Resolves 1887, c.33, SC1/series 228, Petition of E. Williams Hervey

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455069">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455069</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: [New Bedford?] </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: E. Williams Hervey, New Bedford; committee on military affairs </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>E. Williams Hervey</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1887-02-01,1887-02-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 1, 1887 and referred to the committee on military affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 2, 1887 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizen </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: military aid, Fountain Ellis, New Bedford, Civil War, stevedore, navy, U.S. ship Sabine, frigate, sailor, includes certificate of service </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1887, c.33, passed April 4, 1887 </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>