Passed Acts; St. 1819, c.68, SC1/series 229, Petition of Thomas Paul

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520829 Date of creation: 1819-05-27 Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Thomas PaulScipio DaltonCharles BinerThomas DaltonBenjamin PaulJames BurrCato FreemanDudley Tidd[Abner Gardner?]Henry BensonPomp ThurstonJohn SlaidSamuel WilliamsJoseph LewisSamuel JasperEdward ShawThomas Paul Jr.Fadre BanardN. PendletonJonathan Cash Actions taken on dates: 1819-06-14,1819-06-15,1819-06-18,1819-06-19 Legislative action: Received in the House June 14, 1819. Read and accepted June 15, 1819. Accepted in the House June 18, 1819 and received in the Senate on June 19, 1819 Total signatures: 20 Legislative action summary: Received, read, accepted, accepted, received Males of color signatures: 20 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: men of colour in the town of Boston, [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: African Humane Society for education and instruction of poor children of color, a great number of poor children of colour, instruction, education, school, occupation, moral instruction, boys, roving about the streets, vices and crimes, state prison, miserable beggars, almshouse, compassion for the rising generation of their colour, author of all good, voluntary subscription, association, society, sum, benevolent purposes, funds, lands, remote from Boston or any large populous place, stury industrious and moral overseers, faithful industrious and experienced farmers, read and write, honest industry a living, good morals and religious habits, treasurer, deceased, bonds, powers, rights, duties, privileges, publick uncultivated and wild land, grant Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1819, c. 68, passed June 19, 1819 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.