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Petition subject: Women may be allowed to vote and hold office

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029710

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Plymouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Edwin Lewis
2. Phebe P. Blackmar
3. Betsey Morton
4. Abby Morton Diaz

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and tabeled

Total signatures: 44

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28

Female signatures: 16

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, those that should be legal voters, [females], ["women who ought to vote"], ["women"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage, includes poem

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2577

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.