DOI: 10.7910/dvn/t0geq
title: Passed Acts; St. 1838, c.18, SC1/series 229, 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:13448106"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448106&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;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on parishes &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Jasper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Lucas Rowe?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Guess&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enoch Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Carpenter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Marshall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cato Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enoch Stallad&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Cutler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James G. Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel W. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Brooks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paton Stewart&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1838-01-25,1838-01-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1838 and referred to the committee on parishes and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 26, 1838 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 33 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 33 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: in behalf of themselves and of their associates worshipping as a religious society and church in a meeting house near Belknap Street in Boston in the county of Suffolk, [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: First Independent Baptist Church and Society in Belknap Street, Joy Street, Boston, religious corporations, meeting house, Suffolk county, more than ten years ago, large edifice, title, constitution, by laws, temporal and spiritual business, bill &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1838, c.18, passed February 23, 1838 &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;