Passed Resolves; Resolves 1785, c.48, SC1/series 228, Petition of John Codman Jr.

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208670 Date of creation: 1785-11-04 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:John Codman Jr. Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Schooner Amity, James Duncanson, master, owned by British subjects, taken on high seas by some of the seamen on board of the vessel, captured by vessel belonging to Salem, Duncanson paid salvage demanded by the captors, trial of the prisoners, intended voyage to Africa, lumber, bread, beef, pork, loag sugar, geneva, naval office, restrictions, foreign vessels, [1755 John Codman murder case?] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1785, c.48, passed November 9, 1785 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.