House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2335, SC1/series 230, Petition of Henry Elwell Jr.

<p>Petition subject: Equal elective franchise for women </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029664">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029664</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Danvers </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George W. Greene, Milton; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Henry Elwell Jr.</li><li>Lucy Thurston</li><li>Eunice H. Merrill</li><li>Mary P. Clough</li><li>Charlotte Roberts</li><li>Sarah N. Bancroft</li><li>Martha M. Cutler</li><li>Lydia W. Endicott</li><li>Elizabeth H. Reed</li><li>John C. Webb</li><li>Joseph Merrill</li><li>Richard Hood</li><li>John Cutler</li><li>William Endicott</li><li>Aaron Porter</li><li>Ezra Dodge</li><li>Ira Clough</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 53 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35 </p> <p>Female signatures: 18 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, women over 21 years, legal voters, [females] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2335 </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>