Senate Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 11893, SC1/series 231, Petition of William A. Mayhew

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381161 Date of creation: 1846-02-06 Petition location: Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen Skiff, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures:William A. MayhewGeorge DunhamAlfred Norton Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-11,1846-02-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1846 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: selectmen and overseers of the poor of the town of Tisbury Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: To admit Bilhah Bassett, a coloured woman, into the insane hospital, destitute, unsound mind, very raving disposition, frequently deranged, dangerous for her to go at large Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1846, Docket 11893 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.