Passed Resolves; Resolves 1808, c.185, SC1/series 228, Petition of Benjamin Hichborn

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455076 Date of creation: (unknown) Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Benjamin HichbornBenjamin JoyeBenjamin Clarke CutlerCharles CushingHenry NewmanJohn Marston Legislative action: Committed Total signatures: 30 Legislative action summary: Committed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 30 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: underwritten, citizens of said Commonwealth, directors of the New Engd Missi Ld Compy, executor to the estate of Joseph Barrell, by his agent Benj Jarvis [Benjamin Jarvis], administrator to the estate of Nathl Fellowes [Nathaniel Fellowes] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: New England and Mississippi Land Company, Yazoo land scandal, Georgia, unsettled lands, act, deeds, grants, void, cession, claims Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1808, c.185, passed June 9, 1808 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.