Senate Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 11633, SC1/series 231, Petition of Barzillai Frost

Petition subject: Support for asylum for discharged convicts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381155 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Choate, Middlesex; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures:Barzillai FrostSusan E. WhitcombHarriet MooreSusan LoringRuth EmersonAbby AlcottAmos Bronson AlcottHelen ThoreauJane ThoreauMaria Thoreau Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-22,1845-01-23 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 22, 1845 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 23, 1845 and concurred Total signatures: 155 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 38 Female signatures: 93 Unidentified signatures: 24 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Concord, Weston, Bedford, Harvard, Fairhaven Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11633 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.