Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.174-Revolution Council Papers, Second Series, 1777-1778. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Richard Derby Jr.

<p>Petition subject: Slave trade </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906047">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906047</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1778-11-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Salem </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Richard Derby Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1778-11-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Council on November 2, 1778 and read and ordered and granted </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, granted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: for himself and the others concerned </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: cod fish, pickled herring, West Indies, Captain Stephen Higginson, brigantine Fox, gulf St. Lawrence, Tobago, schooner Canso, Samuel Ingersoll master, Demerara, Dutch settlement, Irish herrings, haddock, lumber, dry fish, embargo, Cape Francois, ["…the fish shipped for the West Indies being for the use of the negros..."] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 174, pages 496-497 </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>