House Unpassed Legislation 1808, Docket 6174, 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:10935276">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935276</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1808-01-15 </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>Mitchel Lincoln</li><li>John Wait</li><li>Edward Stevens</li><li>Ward Jackson</li><li>Benjamin Thompson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 6 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 </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 1808, Docket 6174 </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>