Petition of Edward Bacon

<p>Petition subject: Services </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548191">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548191</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1761-01-09 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward Bacon</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1761-01-30,1761-01-30 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on January 30, 1761 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on January 30, 1761 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: 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>Identifications of signatories: Esqr </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: Mashpee </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: Barnstable, reimbursement, hearing, complaints, Reuben Cognehew, General Court, answer, King George II, England, encroachment, lands, English, river, South Shore, South Sea, Mashpee, travel expenses, Boston, accounts, winter, smallpox, sickness, horse hire, petitioning, James Otis, Andrew Oliver, Francis Bernard </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, page 156 </p>