Petition of Joseph Twitchell

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548266 Date of creation: 1771-04-03 Petition location: Sherborn Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joseph TwitchellElisha BarberSamuel SangerAndrew Newhall Actions taken on dates: 1771-04-11,1771-04-15 Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on April 11, 1771 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 15, 1771 Total signatures: 4 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the selectmen of the town of Sherbourn in the county of Middlesex Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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. Additional archivist notes: reimbursement, support, Sarah Wampsquan, Sarah Wamsquon, sickness, nursing, doctors, Ebenezer Thayer, Thomas Hutchinson, Abraham Fuller, Thomas Flucker, Thomas Cushing, Woodbridge Brown, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 501-502, 509-509a, 515-517, 527-530] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 527-528