Passed Resolves; Resolves 1792, c.67, SC1/series 228, Petition of Edward Howard

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208678">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208678</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1792-06-16 </p> <p>Petition location: Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward Howard</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: chairman of the overseers of the poor of the town of Bridgewater </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: John Jess and family, Sylva Mortis, formerly slaves of Josiah Edson of Bridgewater, conspirator, estate, Hezekiah Hooper, Jonathan Burr, expenses </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1792, c.67, passed June 28, 1792 </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>