House Unpassed Legislation 1807, Docket 5977, 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:10935275">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935275</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1807-02-09 </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>Benjamin Thompson</li><li>John Wait</li><li>Mitchel Lincoln</li><li>Ward Jackson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 5 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: committee for the purpose of purchasing a suitable piece of land, and making preparation for building said house </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: for a lottery to finish the African Meeting House school room, publick teacher of piety, religion and morality of their own colour, suitable persons of colour were accordingly appointed by them, to solict subscriptions in this town and elsewhere, school for the children of the people of colour, building, three stories high, basement story, religious worship, forty feet by forty five feet, sale of pews, Rhode Island, New Hampshire </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1807, Docket 5977 </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>