Senate Unpassed Legislation 1794, Docket 1885, SC1/series 231, Petition of Cotton Brook

Petition subject: Captives in Algiers Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148833 Date of creation: 1794-06-04 Petition location: Haverhill Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee, both Houses on the petition of Moses Brown and others on a similar subject Selected signatures:Cotton BrookBenjamin WillisJames Brickett Actions taken on dates: 1794-06-10,1794-06-11 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 10, 1794 and committed to the committee of both Houses on the petition of Moses Brown and others on a similar subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 11, 1794 and concurred Total signatures: 57 Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Memorialists Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: captivity, Algerines, liberty Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1794, Docket 1885 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.