Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.167-Revolution Council Papers, 1777. SC1/series 45X, Petition of Joshua Giddings

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084 Date of creation: 1777 Petition location: Ipswich Selected signatures:Joshua Giddings Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-16 Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and ordered and read and accepted Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, ordered, read, accepted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional archivist notes: Fortune Ellery, John Cushing, Captain Robert Dodge, [“…he was at great expence in hiring said Fortune to engage in the public service to which services he was not obliged being a black man…”] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 162 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.请愿主题：兵役（Military service） 原始文献来源：http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084 创建日期：1777年 请愿地点：伊普斯维奇（Ipswich） 已选签名者：约书亚·吉丁斯（Joshua Giddings） 处置执行日期：1777-08-16 立法处置：1777年8月12日于参议会接收该请愿，并经宣读、审议后予以通过 总签名数：1 立法处置摘要：接收、审议、宣读并通过 合法选民签名（未被标注为非合法选民的男性）：1 仅女性签名：否 请愿格式：手稿（Manuscript）形式，而非印刷制式祈祷文格式 档案管理员附加备注：福琼·埃勒里（Fortune Ellery）、约翰·库欣（John Cushing）、罗伯特·多奇上尉（Captain Robert Dodge），“…他为雇佣福琼参与公共事务耗费了巨额开支，而作为一名黑人，他本无需承担此类义务…” 请愿文件馆藏：马萨诸塞州联邦档案（Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth），具体为马萨诸塞州档案第167卷，第162页 致谢：本项目得到美国国家人文基金会（National Endowment for the Humanities，PW-5105612）、马萨诸塞州联邦档案、哈佛大学拉德克利夫高级研究院（Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University）、哈佛大学美国政治研究中心（Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University）、哈佛大学机构发展倡议项目（Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University）以及哈佛大学图书馆（Harvard University Library）的资助。