Petition of Benjamin Ashley

Petition subject: Education Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548071 Date of creation: 1752-12-21 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:Benjamin Ashley Actions taken on dates: 1752-12-22 Legislative action: Not sustained on December 22, 1752 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Not sustained Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee 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. Additional archivist notes: accounts, supplies, free boarding school at Stockbridge, Rebecca Kellogg Ashley, Boston, schools, education, Mohawk, Six Nations, Spencer Phipps, [note: an account from December 27, 1752 was granted by the General Court in Resolves 1752-1753, chapter 135], [additional documents in volumes, see page 266] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, page 322