Passed Resolves; Resolves 1784, c.105, SC1/series 228, Petition of William Foster

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455088">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455088</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Foster</li><li>Jesse Hopkins</li><li>Jesse Nichols</li><li>Samuel Tidd</li><li>Bill Russell</li><li>Samuel Eames</li><li>Pomp Baldwin</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1784-06-03,1784-06-03,1784-06-22,1784-06-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 3, 1784 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 3, 1784 and read and non-concurred and received in the House on June 22, 1784 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 22, 1784 and read and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 11 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, non-concurred, received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Sergeant, others belongong to Captain Samuel Tay's company in Colonel Webb's Regiment raised to reinforce the Continental Army according to a resolve of the great and general court dated June 1781, [males of color] </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: military service, desertion, wood, Colonel Campbell, fatigue, labor, discharge, exclusion from roll, Colonel Webb, payments </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1784, c.105, passed July 9, 1784 </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>