DOI: 10.7910/dvn/lgno8
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1858, referred to special committee on voter qualifications, SC1/series 230, Petition of Anna Gardner

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Equal elective franchise for women &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029839"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029839&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Nantucket &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph Mitchell, Nantucket; committee on the judiciary; joint special committee on the qualifications of voters &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roland Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alfred Folger&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Brock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Coffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Huntington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eunice Hadwen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eunice F. Ross&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Austin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wesley Berry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Berry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lizzie Barber&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Ross&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Hines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paulina Elliott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Wheeler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1858-01-12,1858-01-15,1858-01-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 12, 1858 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and referred to the joint special committee on the qualifications of voters on January 15, 1858 and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1858 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 277 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 56 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 191 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: women, [females], [females of color], [males of color], ["men and women"] &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;: Printed &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: women's suffrage, [includes notes next to signatures] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1858, referred to special committee on voter qualifications &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;