Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.61-Maritime, 1671-1694. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Ruth Knill

<p>Petition subject: Slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909047">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909047</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1697-10-30 </p> <p>Petition location: Charlestown </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Ruth Knill</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1693-09-10,1697-10-30,1697-10-30 </p> <p>Legislative action: Read in the Council on September 10, 1693 and received in the House on October 30, 1697 and voted and granted and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on October 30, 1697 and voted and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Read, received, voted, granted, sent, received, voted, concurred </p> <p>Female signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: widow, [females] </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 archivist notes: Sambo, Phillip Knill, ship swan, Captain Thomas Gilbert, Barbadoes, Barbados, Canada expedition, [index: "account of masts etc."] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 61, page 357 </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>