House Unpassed Legislation 1798, Docket 4725, SC1/series 230, Petition of Oliver Plimpton

<p>Petition subject: Asking for funds to be granted </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935269">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935269</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1798-06-04 </p> <p>Petition location: Sturbridge </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Oliver Plimpton</li><li>Samuel Hobbs</li><li>Lemuel Sanders</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: To lie for evidence </p> <p>Total signatures: 5 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: To lie </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: subscribers, selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Sturbridge </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: George Briggs, transient, sickness, diseases, death, house, David Cory, Worcester county, nursing, providing, burying, doctor's bill, attendance, accounts, no lawful and legal settlement </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1798, Docket 4725 </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>