House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Edwin Lewis

Petition subject: Women may be allowed to vote and hold office Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029710 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Plymouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Edwin LewisPhebe P. BlackmarBetsey Morton Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and tabeled. Total signatures: 44 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28 Female signatures: 16 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, those that should be legal voters, [females], ["women who ought to vote"], ["women"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage, includes poem Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2577 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.