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Petition subject: Striking out the word "male" wherever it occurs in the Massachusetts constitution

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005534

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Harrison Bliss, Worcester; committee on constitutional amendments

Selected signatures:

1. Sarah H. Earle
2. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
3. Anne H. Southwick
4. Caleb A. Wall
5. Charles A. Chase
6. Sarah Cheney
7. Sarah E. Chase
8. Lucy Chase
9. Sarah F. Earle
10. Effingham L. Capron

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-15,1855-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1855 and referred to the committee on constitutional amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 137

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33

Female signatures: 66

Unidentified signatures: 38

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1855, Docket 4046

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.