Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.168-Revolution Council Papers, 1777-1778. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Cuba

Petition subject: Slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906043 Date of creation: 1777-11-21 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:Cuba Actions taken on dates: 1777-12-03 Legislative action: Received in the Council on December 3, 1777 and read and ordered and granted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, granted Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: a negro woman, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: about twenty five years of age, taken on the high seas in the Weymouth packet by the Oliver Cromwell ship of war commanded by Captain Harden and brought into Boston, officers of the Oliver Cromwell attempting to make her their own property, Lieutenant Chapman [John Chapman], would have her sold as a slave, Jamaica, confined at a house on Jamaica Plains, Jamaica Plain, maritime court [freedom granted; see Resolves 1776-1777, chapter 324, Resolve Forbidding the Sale of Negro Captives, passed September 16, 1776] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 168, pages 31-32 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.