DOI: 10.7910/dvn/9vewi
title: Massachusetts Archives Collection. v.9-Domestic Relations, 1643-1774. SC1/series 45X, Petition of John Moffatt

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Slaves &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908968"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13908968&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1727-06 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Moffatt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1727-06-24,1727-06-27,1727-11-23,1727-11-24,1727-11-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on June 24, 1727 and read and ordered that the petition be referred to the next session of the court for further consideration and that in the mean time the petitioner serve the said Richard Trevett with a copy of the petition that he shew cause on the first Thursday of the said session why the prayer thereof should not be granted and that the execution within referred to be stayed in the meantime any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on June 27, 1727 and read and concurred and received in the Council on November 23, 1727 and read again together with the answer of Richard Trevett and the same being duly considered ordered that the petition be dismissed and sent for concurrence and received in the House on November 24, 1727 and read and nonconcurred and voted that the prayer of the petition be so far granted as that that part of the fine due to the province from the petitioner by force of the judgment recovered against him as within mentioned be and hereby is remitted any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding and sent for concurrence and received in the Council on November 25, 1727 and read and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, ordered, dismissed, sent, received, read, nonconcurred, voted, sent, received, read, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: mariner, former master of the ship Morehampton &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: John Moffat, Morehampton, Richard Trevett, Marblehead, Pompey, England, Bristol, Plymouth, Plimouth, Captain Davie, Captain Davy, Oporto, Portugal, William Dudley, William Dummer, Captain Gally, Josiah Willard, William Ballantine &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 9, pages 187-189 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;