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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448925

Date of creation: 1849-01-09

Petition location: East Needham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Kingsbury, Needham; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Dijah Bowen

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, memorialist

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: [state lunatic hospital in Worcester, rights of a free citizen and free man, "'surely oppression maketh a wise man mad' are the words of the wise man himself", stigma of lunacy, constitution, 1835, judge, jury, law suit, evidence, grievances, investigation, abused, insulted, property, beat, bruised, violence, benefits, protection, laws, "…in a situation in many respects no better than the colored people of the southern states.", "In some cases the name of rogue, is preferable to that of a fool."]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2327

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.