House Unpassed Legislation 1860, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Gilbert Walker

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906086">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906086</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1860-02-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Dexter F. Parker, Worcester; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gilbert Walker</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-04,1860-02-04 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1860 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 4, 1860 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: husband, [males of color] </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: Sarah B. Walker, minor daughter, Sarah Ellen, Phillips family, Hassanamisco, Grafton, insane, insanity, Worcester county, house keeper, board, expenses, resolution, probate, [additional documents in folder include certification that Sarah B. Walker was committed to the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester on April 18, 1855 and had been under daily care and observation since that date, correspondence of Gilbert Walker on presenting the petition, and receipts of payments to State Lunatic Hospital] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1860, rejected </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>