Senate Unpassed Legislation 1788, Docket 942, SC1/series 231, Petition of Solomon Dewey

<p>Petition subject: Court cases </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148827">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148827</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1788-03-10 </p> <p>Petition location: Westfield </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Solomon Dewey</li><li>Stephen Dewey</li><li>Heman Dewey</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1788-03,1788-06-17 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred in March 1788 and leave to withdraw on June 17, 1788 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, referred, leave to withdraw </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Petitioners, ["others"] </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: court of common pleas, Northampton, Hampshire county, suit, Bristol White of Monson, Flora and infant, wife and child of Bristol, Pamela, "alledged to be free persons," damages, appeal, supreme judicial court, Springfield, evidence, bill of sale of the said Flora, Edward Raymond, former master of the said Flora, William Gilliland, depositions, New York, employed by Gilliland to apprehend and convey back the said Flora her child and the said Pamela, trespass, John Ingersoll, Samuel Mather, William Shepard, Warham Parks </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1788, Docket 942 </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>