Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.70-Military, 1680-1703. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Samuel Newell

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906019 Date of creation: 1695 Petition location: Roxbury Selected signatures:Samuel Newell Actions taken on dates: 1695-06-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1695 and read and granted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: shipwreck, Canada expedition, six weeks in desert, food, heathen, one year of Indian slavery, French, ransom, allowance, [\"...feeding sometimes on rotten wood and sometimes on such vermin as they could find...\"], [\"…after one year of Indian slavery got to the French which was some what better but still slavery...\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 70, pages 247-247a 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.