Passed Acts; St. 1857, c.48, SC1/series 229, Petition of Stephen Maddox

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520840">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520840</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1857-02-13 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ambrose A. Ranney, Boston; committee on parishes and religious societies </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Stephen Maddox</li><li>Benjamin M. Bond</li><li>James Hamilton</li><li>Robert Butler</li><li>Joseph P. Turner</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1857-02-18,1857-02-19 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 18, 1857 and referred to the committee on parishes and religious societies and received in the Senate on February 19, 1857 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 5 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Trustees of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, a society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, which is a religious organization similar to but distinct from and independent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, pastor and members of the African Methodist Epsicopal Church in Boston, [males of color], ["African Methodist Episcopal Church of Boston"] </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: appointment, conveyances, lands, property, meeting house estate, West Center Street, body corporate, reverend, religious, Suffolk county, [includes two texts, one supporting the other] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1857, c.48, passed April 17, 1857 </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>