DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ny1kf
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9945, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel Jasper

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Incorporation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857833"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857833&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Jasper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel W. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannibal Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Cutler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Mills&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucy Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel S. Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Woodroff&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Skeene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H. Thacker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Angeline Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cato Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James G. Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Brooks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Scarlett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Tyler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony F. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William G. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Telford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pompey Thurston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nelson Mason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Telford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Uriah Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Putman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;C.S. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Junier&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;G.W. Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Lucius Farwell?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Chambers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sally Tilford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Tilford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Anthony&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amelia Nahar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Priscilla A. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diana Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rhoda Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dorcas Lew&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phebe Hoyt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Tilford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Tilford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 65 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 38 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 7 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: coloured persons belonging to the First African Baptist Church and Society in Boston, [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: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Remonstrance against the incorporation of the African Baptist Church in Boston, religious, Coffin Pitts, Samuel Lewis, petitioning, Deacon Samuel Jasper, deeds, Daniel Wild, William Bentley, Belknap Street, Joy Street, minister, church, religious societies, two actions at law, rent, judicial tribunal, trials, leave to withdraw &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9945 &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;