House Unpassed Legislation 1857, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell

<p>Petition subject: Equal elective franchise for women </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11006381">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11006381</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1856-11 </p> <p>Petition location: New York City, New York </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell</li><li>Lucy Stone</li><li>Ernestine L. Rose</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1857-03-27,1857-03-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred to the committee on the judiciary and on March 27, 1857, had leave to withdraw and accepted in the House on March 28, 1857 </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred, leave to withdraw, accepted </p> <p>Female signatures: 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a committee appointed by the National Woman's Rights Convention, [females] </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: not 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 1857, leave to withdraw </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>