Senate Unpassed Legislation 1796, Docket 2196, SC1/series 231, Petition of Gad Hitchcock

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148841">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148841</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Pembroke </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on accounts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gad Hitchcock</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1796-01-21,1796-01-21,1796-01-29 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 21, 1796 and committed to the committee on accounts to consider and report and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 21, 1796 and concurred and report leave to withdraw and concurred on January 29, 1796 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, 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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [unnamed] negro woman, son Juba, and daughter [Dinah?], [Juba Violet?], [Dinah Violet?], "right of being born free, equal, and independent," Plymouth county, constitution, infirm, support, Declaration of Rights, emancipation, laws, paupers, poor, reimbursement, [Doctor and Reverend, information online about him, including sermons, attended Harvard and well known] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1796, Docket 2196 </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>