DOI: 10.7910/dvn/urmr0
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9979, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles K. Cook

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Incorporation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148865"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148865&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: New Bedford &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Crocker, New Bedford; Jonathan R. Ward, New Bedford; committee on parishes and religious societies &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David S. Fletcher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Grant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Berry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Simmands&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Slocum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Sampson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitabel Peterson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret Shepherd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;May Francis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Sabina Thomas?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amanda Thomas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Grant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza White&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catherine Sampson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catherine Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Cuffee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mehitabel Berry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ageness Nelson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charlotte Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1836-02-18,1836-02-18 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: House committee on parishes and religious societies reported and accepted leave to withdraw on February 18, 1836 and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 18, 1836 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 38 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Reported, accepted, leave to withdraw, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 22 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: African Christian Society of New Bedford, society for religious worship &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9979 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;