Petition of Richard Perkins

<p>Petition subject: Resources </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334456">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334456</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1781-09 </p> <p>Petition location: [Bridgewater?] </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Richard Perkins</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1781-09-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and granted in the Council on September 27, 1781 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, granted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: in behalf of David & George Keith 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>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: George Keith, David Keith, Bridgewater, slitting mill, nailing rods, workmen, labor, air furnace, Titticut, casting, rollers, gudgeons, three tons of Martha’s Vineyard clay lying at said furance, John Avery </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 178, pages 117-118 </p>