DOI: 10.7910/dvn/23hzg
title: Passed Acts; St. 1836, c.9, SC1/series 229, Petition of Thomas Dalton

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Incorporation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935185"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935185&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1835-09-05 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Sturgis, Suffolk; committee on education &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Caples&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James G. Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Primus Hall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cato Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Thacker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon R. Alexander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lyman Hutchinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony F. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caleb Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Fatal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Scarlett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel W. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hiram Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Gover&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[William Hanson?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Scott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Cutler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1836-01 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate in January 1836 and referred to the committee on education &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: petitioners, [males 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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Infant School Association for the Education of Coloured Youth in Boston, charitable donation, African meeting house, Belknap Street, Joy Street, school room, education, all denominations, school committee, funds, Abiel Smith Esq., school house, association, support, infant or primary school, instructors, act, charter, body politic &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1836, c.9, passed February 20, 1836 &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;