Senate Unpassed Legislation 1854, Docket 18187, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel Adams

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906105 Date of creation: 1853-08-26 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Winslow Lewis, Boston; committee on claims Selected signatures:Samuel Adams Actions taken on dates: 1854-01-20,1854-01-21 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 20, 1854 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1854 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Shays' Rebellion, horses, Worcester, services, damages, interest, cash, 1787, sleigh, William Jennings, John Parker, officer, pressed into service, Lieutenant Colonel Drury, jail, prison, party of insurgents, attempted to release, escape, injured, hard driving, compensation, [includes excerpt from Massachusetts constitution, documents badly damaged before being submitted to the legislature, includes notes and addresses and employment and towns next to names, including Dorchester, 192 signatures in support, recommendation for favorable consideration, Thomas Tolman, Thomas Marsh, Joseph Badger, James Stone, Benjamin Lord, Joseph Noyes, Edward Odiorne, ] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 18187 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.