Petition of William Jeffrey

<p>Petition subject: Dummer's War </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855880">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855880</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1741-11-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Harwich </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Jeffrey</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1741-12-16,1741-12-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on December 16, 1741 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on December 22, 1741 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian, [males of color] </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>Native American tribe: Mashpee </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> <p>Additional archivist notes: veterans, soldiers, military service, Eastward, compensation, wounded, cripple, disabilities, Captain Josias Winslow, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, John Hobson, Joseph Freeman, Colonel Edmund Freeman </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 346-347 </p>