House Unpassed Legislation 1809, Docket 6437, SC1/series 230, Petition of Daniel Wild

<p>Petition subject: African meeting house school room </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935277">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935277</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1809-02-20 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Daniel Wild</li><li>Ward Jackson</li><li>Benjamin Thompson</li><li>John Wait</li><li>Mitchel Lincoln</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1809-03-03 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred on March 3, 1809 </p> <p>Total signatures: 5 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a committee for that purpose </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: publick teacher of piety religion and morality, subscription, lottery, house for that purpose, purchase, ground, lands, brick building, basement story, school room for the instruction of the children of colour throughout the town, minister, sales of pews, expenses, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, religion, church </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1809, Docket 6437 and 6438 </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>