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Petition subject: Individual case of discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148859

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Bailey, Norfolk; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Benjamin Davenport
2. Otis Thayer
3. William Green
4. William Hastings
5. Seth Davenport
6. George Staples
7. John G. Metcalf
8. Arthur Cook Jr.
9. Charles C.P. Hastings
10. Henry A. Aldrich
11. Elijah Hayward
12. Obadiah Wood
13. Adin Ballou
14. Daniel Wood
15. D.L. Child [David Lee Child]

Actions taken on dates: 1834-02-07,1834-03-01

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 7, 1834 and referred to the committee on education and received in the Senate on March 1, 1834 and reported leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 23

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, leave to withdraw

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 23

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Sullivan D. Anthony, admission, application, prior to May 1833, eleven years of age, New England Asylum for the Blind, Mendon, education, schools, Worcester county, has for six years been totally blind, resolve, rejected, refused admission on account of his color, trustees, [Perkins School for the Blind]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1834, Docket 9505

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.