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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148857

Date of creation: 1829-01-21

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on parishes

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Jasper
2. William Redding
3. William Brown
4. John T. Hilton
5. William Mead
6. Cyrus Foster
7. John Andrew
8. Hamlet Earl
9. Marshal H. Carttel
10. John B. Cutler
11. Coffin Pitts
12. George Washington

Actions taken on dates: 1829-01-24,1829-01-26

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1829 and committed to the committee on parishes and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 26, 1829 and concurred and leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 12

Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred, leave to withdraw

Males of color signatures: 12

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Members of the First African Baptist Church, [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: First African Baptist Church, Reverend Thomas Paul, pastor, religious, Belknap Street, Joy Street, religious society

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1829, Docket 8763

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.