House Unpassed Legislation 1794, Docket 4052, SC1/series 230, Petition of Cato Hanker

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935262 Date of creation: 1794-06-09 Petition location: Framingham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Cato Hanker Legislative action: Leave to withdraw Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Leave to withdraw Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: African, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Africa, stolen, parents, Boston, Deacon Moses Haven of Framingham, education, shoemaking business, freedom, liberation, Cambridge, taxation, citizen, Ticonderoga, New York, Crown point, West point, Captain Richardson's company, fire, burning of Charlestown, sickness, poverty, support, estate Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1794, Docket 4052 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.