House Unpassed Legislation 1796, Docket 4385, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonas Brooks

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935263 Date of creation: 1796-02-01 Petition location: Acton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Jonas Brooks Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Caesar Thompson, wife, and three small children, not legally settled, Continental Army, state poor list, accounts Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1796, Docket 4385 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.