DOI: 10.7910/dvn/bjybo
title: Passed Acts; St. 1854, c.371, SC1/series 229, Petition of B.C. Clark [Benjamin C. Clark]

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Incorporation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935187"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935187&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Otis Rich, Boston; several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;B.C. Clark [Benjamin C. Clark]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Rich&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Clapp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eli Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Kimball&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thoms Russell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Perkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Wells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Winslow Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry H. Chamberlin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis W. Bird&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Albert Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Josselyn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George P. Bowers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warren Burton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Pond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hiram Bosworth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Converse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Washburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Hale&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Velorous Taft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1854-04-08,1854-04-11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on April 8, 1854 and referred to a committee and received in the Senate on April 11, 1854 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 62 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 62 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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: Emigrant Aid Company, association, to aid and protect emigrants from New England and from the Old World in settling in the West, homes, education, rights, privileges, free labor, property, Kansas, free state, slave state, Eli Thayer, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 20,000 immigrants, Missouri, Bleeding Kansas, Alexander H. Bullock, Edward Everett Hale, Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka, Osawatomie, Amos Lawrence &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1854, c.371, passed April 26, 1854 &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;