Passed Resolves; Resolves 1794, c.48, SC1/series 228, Petition of Joseph Soper

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208679">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208679</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Hanover </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Soper</li><li>Joseph Ramsdell</li><li>Nathaniel Sylvester</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: selectmen of Hanover in the county of Plymouth </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: Samuel Mingo, 1790, a mollato supposed to have a white mother and a negro father, Rhode Island, soldier for the town of Bridgewater, 1792, two of their children, small pox, removal of the other part of the family, expenses, accounts </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1794, c.48, passed February 6, 1795 </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>