House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2577, SC1/series 230, Petition of William B. Stone

<p>Petition subject: Women may be allowed to vote and hold office </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029704">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029704</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Gardner </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Edgell, Gardner; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William B. Stone</li><li>Samantha Robinson</li><li>Sarah W. Lawrence</li><li>Elijah Putnam</li><li>Henry Lawrence</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 31 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 </p> <p>Female signatures: 14 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, voters, non voters, [females], ["legal voters"], ["women who ought to be legal voters"], ["women"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2577 </p> <p>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.</p>