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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455178

Date of creation: 1888-01-30

Petition location: Springfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles C. Spellman, Hampden; committee on parishes and religious societies

Selected signatures:

1. Morris C. Brooks

Actions taken on dates: 1888-02-01,1888-02-02

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 1, 1888 and referred to the committee on parishes and religious societies and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 2, 1888 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: pastor, [males of color], ["the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Springfield"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Loring Street Methodist Church, Union American Church, Edward J. Williams, Dennis T. Berry, Henry T. Clinton, Harvey Alexander, Benjamin Harris

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1888, c.201, passed April 9, 1888

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.