Passed Acts; St. 1836, c.9, SC1/series 229, Petition of Coffin Pitts

<p>Petition subject: Incorporation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956306">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956306</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1836-01-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry D. Gray, Suffolk; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Coffin Pitts</li><li>Cyrus Foster</li><li>Joseph Lewis</li><li>Simpson Lewis</li><li>William F. Bassett</li><li>Solomon Guess</li><li>George Turner</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1836-01-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 28, 1836 and referred to the committee on education </p> <p>Total signatures: 7 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 7 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: members of the African Baptist Church, [males of color], ["others"] </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: Remonstrance against the incorporation of the Infant School Association for the Education of Coloured Youth in Boston, religious, African Baptist Church, Belknap Street, Joy Street, Thomas Dalton, petitioning, meeting house, instruction, no right title or claim </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1836, c.9, passed February 20, 1836 </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>