Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9945, SC1/series 231, Petition of Coffin Pitts

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148864">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148864</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Lunt, Essex; committee on parishes </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Coffin Pitts</li><li>Samuel Lewis</li><li>Adam Oswell</li><li>John R. Taylor</li><li>Thomas Taylor</li><li>John Griffin</li><li>Joseph Lewis</li><li>Simpson Lewis</li><li>Enoch Lewis</li><li>Solomon Guess</li><li>William F. Bassett</li><li>Adam Lewis</li><li>Cyrus Foster</li><li>Peter Lewis</li><li>George Turner</li><li>Robert Johnson</li><li>Robert Walker</li><li>James Carter</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1836-02-01,1836-02-02,1836-02-11,1836-03-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 1, 1836 and referred to the committee on parishes and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 2, 1836 and concurred and Senate reported and accepted leave to withdraw on February 11, 1836 and received in the House on March 2, 1836 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 18 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, reported, accepted, leave to withdraw, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 18 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: [males of color], ["others"] </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: African Baptist Church in Boston, religious, Daniel Wild, William Bentley, deeds, real estate, lands, Belknap Street, Joy Street, Deacon Samuel Jasper, Baptist Church of Christ of people of colorin said Boston, religious societies, petitioning </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9945 </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>