Senate Unpassed Legislation 1797, Docket 2272, SC1/series 231, Petition of Jonas Brooks

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148842 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Acton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on accounts Selected signatures:Jonas Brooks Actions taken on dates: 1797-02-24,1797-03-03 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1797 and submitted to the committee on accounts and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 3, 1797 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Inhabitants, in behalf of the town of Acton Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Ceaser Tompson a negro man with his wife and three children, Caesar Tompson, Ceaser Thompson, Caesar Thompson, poor, accounts, applications, overseers of the poor, Boston, [references Supereme Judicial Court case on a similar situation between Shelburne and Greenfield] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1797, Docket 2272 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.