Petition opposing Religious Exemptions to Militia Service.

• imprint_number: 1797.033
• title: To the honorable ... General Assembly of Virginia : ... petition of ... inhabitants of ... Frederick ... [oppose] granting to Quakers and Menonists an exemption from militia duty ...
• sequence_number: 33
• year: 1797
• place_issued: Winchester
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Inhabitants of Frederick County.
• notes: Petition seeks end to religious exemptions from militia service; repeats complaints made by Berkeley militia members to the preceding Assembly (1796.041); dated at end in manuscript "Dec. 8, 1797" by a clerk of the House of Delegates, indicating date of submission.
  Only known copy is held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia; therein, the word "Frederick" is crossed out and word "Berkeley" is inserted.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; clearly a Winchester imprint, but assigning a printer is speculative.
  
  
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