Passed Resolves; Resolves 1784, c.105, SC1/series 228, Petition of William Foster

Petition subject: Military service Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455088 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:William FosterJesse HopkinsJesse NicholsSamuel TiddBill RussellSamuel EamesPomp Baldwin Actions taken on dates: 1784-06-03,1784-06-03,1784-06-22,1784-06-22 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 3, 1784 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on June 3, 1784 and read and non-concurred and received in the House on June 22, 1784 and read and ordered and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 22, 1784 and read and concurred Total signatures: 11 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, non-concurred, received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Sergeant, others belongong to Captain Samuel Tay's company in Colonel Webb's Regiment raised to reinforce the Continental Army according to a resolve of the great and general court dated June 1781, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: military service, desertion, wood, Colonel Campbell, fatigue, labor, discharge, exclusion from roll, Colonel Webb, payments Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1784, c.105, passed July 9, 1784 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.