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Petition subject: Incorporation

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148863

Date of creation: 1836-03

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Zebedee Cook Jr., Boston; committee on mercantile affairs

Selected signatures:

1. Horace Scudder
2. Bramhall Howe
3. Hunt and Dascomb
4. Charles Cole Jr.
5. Joseph Green

Actions taken on dates: 1836-04-01,1836-04-01

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 1, 1836 and referred to committee on mercantile affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 1, 1836 and concurred and House reported and accepted leave to withdraw on April 8, 1836 and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 8, 1836 and concurred

Total signatures: 36

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, reported, accepted, leave to withdraw, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Boston Whaling Company, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Boston Whaling Company, carrying on the fishing business, fisheries, food, nursery of seamen for our whale commerce, skill, habits of hardihood and energy, capital, fluctuation and uncertainty of the business, interests, profits, protection, salt, supplies, fair prices, market, Marblehead, Gloucester, Hingham, Barnstable

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9937

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.