Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.220-Revolution Resolves, 1778-1779. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Mary Turell

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906069 Date of creation: 1778-09 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on petitions for the sale of lands Selected signatures:Mary Turell Actions taken on dates: 1778-09-23,1778-10,1778-10-14 Legislative action: Read on September 23, 1778 and committed to the committee on petitions for the sale of lands and received in the House in October 1778 and resolved and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on October 14, 1778 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Read, committed, received, resolved, sent, received, read, concurred Female signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: widow, guardian to Susannah Turell an infant, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: John Thurber, Elizabeth Turell, Susanna Turell, Joseph Turell, de Bonis non, house, small lot of land, wharf, [see citation 17 in the book Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings, or google “‘John Thurber’ free”, information from the citation: reference to City Document No. 147, which gives number of years free negroes had been free and number of days they had to work for the town, stated that he owed 4 days to town of Boston, page 240] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 220, pages 36-39 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.