Petition of John Ashley

<p>Petition subject: Services </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548103">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548103</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1754-03-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Sheffield </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Ashley</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1754-04-08,1754-04-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on April 8, 1754 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 9, 1754 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, 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: Stockbridge-Munsee </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: warrant, allowance, 1753, service in the settlement of Mohawks at Stockbridge, Six Nations, accounts, Jacob Wendell, William Shirley, Ebenezer Nichols, William Lawrence, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, Joseph Buckminster </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 32, page 493 </p>