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

<p>Petition subject: Military service </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909084</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1777 </p> <p>Petition location: Ipswich </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joshua Giddings</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1777-08-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Council on August 12, 1777 and ordered and read and accepted </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, ordered, read, accepted </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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 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…”] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 167, page 162 </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>