Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of Cynthia Attaquin

<p>Petition subject: To define rights on railroads </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858184">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858184</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John B. Dillingham, Sandwich; committee on the subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Cynthia Attaquin</li><li>Mary Amos</li><li>Achsah R. Jones</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-22,1842-01-24 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1842 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 24, 1842 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 14 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 14 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: women, [females], [females of color], ["females"], ["women"] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 </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>