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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455183

Date of creation: 1852-01-07

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel W. Gooch, Melrose; committee on manufacturers

Selected signatures:

1. J.V.C. Smith [Jerome Van Crownshield Smith]
2. Patrick Donahue
3. S.O. Dearborn

Actions taken on dates: 1852-02-04,1852-02-05

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1852 and referred to the committee on manufacturers and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 5, 1852 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: New England Land Company, foreigners, immigration, west

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1852, c.257, passed May 20, 1852

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.