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Bartlet, Benjamin, fl. 1800-1801 [Petition of Benjamin Bartlet to the Massachusetts Legislature]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.09271 Author/Creator: Bartlet, Benjamin, fl. 1800-1801 Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: circa 1800 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

Petition on behalf of Bartlet to the Massachusetts legislature, requesting support to help pay for his land and support his family. On verso is the bottom of a printed act of the Massachusetts legislature. A later penciled docket on the first page states that the document was written in either 1800 or 1801.

Bartlet, Benjamin, fl. 1800-1801

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