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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520829

Date of creation: 1819-05-27

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Paul
2. Scipio Dalton
3. Charles Biner
4. Thomas Dalton
5. Benjamin Paul
6. James Burr
7. Cato Freeman
8. Dudley Tidd
9. [Abner Gardner?]
10. Henry Benson
11. Pomp Thurston
12. John Slaid
13. Samuel Williams
14. Joseph Lewis
15. Samuel Jasper
16. Edward Shaw
17. Thomas Paul Jr.
18. Fadre Banard
19. N. Pendleton
20. Jonathan Cash

Actions taken on dates: 1819-06-14,1819-06-15,1819-06-18,1819-06-19

Legislative action: Received in the House June 14, 1819. Read and accepted June 15, 1819. Accepted in the House June 18, 1819 and received in the Senate on June 19, 1819

Total signatures: 20

Legislative action summary: Received, read, accepted, accepted, received

Males of color signatures: 20

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: men of colour in the town of Boston, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: African Humane Society for education and instruction of poor children of color, a great number of poor children of colour, instruction, education, school, occupation, moral instruction, boys, roving about the streets, vices and crimes, state prison, miserable beggars, almshouse, compassion for the rising generation of their colour, author of all good, voluntary subscription, association, society, sum, benevolent purposes, funds, lands, remote from Boston or any large populous place, stury industrious and moral overseers, faithful industrious and experienced farmers, read and write, honest industry a living, good morals and religious habits, treasurer, deceased, bonds, powers, rights, duties, privileges, publick uncultivated and wild land, grant

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1819, c. 68, passed June 19, 1819

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.