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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381161

Date of creation: 1846-02-06

Petition location: Tisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen Skiff, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions

Selected signatures:

1. William A. Mayhew
2. George Dunham
3. Alfred Norton

Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-11,1846-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1846 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1846 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Tisbury

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: To admit Bilhah Bassett, a coloured woman, into the insane hospital, destitute, unsound mind, very raving disposition, frequently deranged, dangerous for her to go at large

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1846, Docket 11893

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.