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Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381155

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Choate, Middlesex; committee on public charitable institutions

Selected signatures:

1. Barzillai Frost
2. Susan E. Whitcomb
3. Harriet Moore
4. Susan Loring
5. Ruth Emerson
6. Abby Alcott
7. Amos Bronson Alcott
8. Helen Thoreau
9. Jane Thoreau
10. Maria Thoreau

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-22,1845-01-23

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 22, 1845 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 23, 1845 and concurred

Total signatures: 155

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 38

Female signatures: 93

Unidentified signatures: 24

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Concord, Weston, Bedford, Harvard, Fairhaven

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11633

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.