Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.215-Revolution Resolves, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Ebenezer Dorr

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906067">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906067</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1777-08-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Ebenezer Dorr</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-29,1777-09-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 29, 1777 and read and committed and received in the Council on September 9, 1777 and recommitted </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, received, recommitted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: committee of correspondence of the town of Boston, chman [chairman] </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 archivist notes: Robert Pierpont, prisoners, prison ship, guard ship, paper money, indigo, [additional documents in volumes, including declaration addition by Dick Frost, free negro of Kennedy] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 215, pages 381-382 </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>