Petition of Mordecai Ellis

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548150">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548150</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1757-01-06 </p> <p>Petition location: Hanover </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Mordecai Ellis</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1757-01-14,1757-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the House on January 14, 1757 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 15, 1757 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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: payment, accounts, care and burial expenses of Bette Cepit, Bette Sepit, Bette Cepet, Bette Sepet, Betty Cepit, Betty Sepit, Betty Sepet, Betty Cepet, Mashpee, Indian guardians, Boston, sickness, funeral, nursing, doctors, medical care, sugar rum, liquor, alcohol, candles, digging grave, winding sheet, coffin, Spencer Phipps, Benjamin Newhall, James Humphrey, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Foster, Thomas Clark, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 752-753] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, pages 753-753a </p>