Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.9-Domestic Relations, 1643-1774. SC1/series 45X, Petition of David Jeffries

Petition subject: Slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908965 Date of creation: 1707-06-12 Petition location: Boston Selected signatures:David Jeffries Actions taken on dates: 1707-06-13,1707-11-11,1707-11-15,1707-11-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 13, 1707 and read and referred to the next session and read and committed on November 11, 1707 and received in the House on November 15, 1707 and ordered that the sum of four pounds be abated to the petitioner in regard one of the said negroes was a sucking child and sent for concurrence and received in Council on November 25, 1707 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, read, referred, read, committed, received, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: merchant Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Bilhah and four small children, sloop Rebecca John Pitts master from Jamaica, merchant, [remit importation fine], Isaac Addington, John Burrill, Joseph Dudley, John Pitts Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 9, pages 157-157a 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.