Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.167-Revolution Council Papers, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Joshua Giddings

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084 Date of creation: 17770000 Petition location: Ipswich Selected signatures:Joshua Giddings Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-16 Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and ordered and read and accepted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, ordered, read, accepted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Fortune Ellery, John Cushing, Captain Robert Dodge, [“…he was at great expence in hiring said Fortune to engage in the public service to which services he was not obliged being a black man…”] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 162 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.