House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2335, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Lloyd Garrison

<p>Petition subject: Equal elective franchise for women </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005507">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005507</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 W. Greene, Milton; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>Robert F. Wallcut</li><li>Samuel May</li><li>Henry J. Prentiss</li><li>Wendell Phillips</li><li>Ann Greene Phillips</li><li>Eliza Garnant</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 11 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5 </p> <p>Female signatures: 6 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, females 21 years and upward, males, legal voters, ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2335 </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>