Senate Unpassed Legislation 1788, Docket 962, SC1/series 231, Petition of Gideon Philbrick

<p>Petition subject: Court cases </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148828">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148828</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1788-02-04 </p> <p>Petition location: Standish </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gideon Philbrick</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1788-03-05,1788-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Resolve in the House on March 5, 1788 and sent for concurrence and nonconcurred in the Senate on March 6, 1788 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Resolve, sent, nonconcurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Petitioner </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: Edmund Mussey, sister, father of the child, pregnant, Simeon Sanborn, oath, threatened, gun, sword, pistol, duel, threatening language, mercy, forgiven, ["The sd Mussey instead of a friend by composition treated your petitioner as he conceived with the highest degree of abuse - and intimated that the child when it should come might be a black, with many other expressions of ignominy and bitter reproach..."] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1788, Docket 962 </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>