Passed Acts; St. 1838, c.18, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Jasper

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448106 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on parishes Selected signatures:Samuel JasperThomas DaltonCoffin PittsPeter GrayJohn DavisJames BurrCyrus FosterBenjamin P. BassettGeorge Washington[Lucas Rowe?]Solomon GuessGeorge BrownSamuel LewisPeter LewisEnoch LewisHenry CarpenterJohn MarshallCato FreemanEnoch StalladHenry WeedenJohn B. CutlerJohn T. HiltonBenjamin WeedenThomas ColeRobert JohnsonJohn WrightJames G. BarbadoesThomas TaylorJoel W. LewisThomas BrooksPaton Stewart Actions taken on dates: 1838-01-25,1838-01-26 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1838 and referred to the committee on parishes and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 26, 1838 and concurred Total signatures: 33 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 33 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: in behalf of themselves and of their associates worshipping as a religious society and church in a meeting house near Belknap Street in Boston in the county of Suffolk, [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: First Independent Baptist Church and Society in Belknap Street, Joy Street, Boston, religious corporations, meeting house, Suffolk county, more than ten years ago, large edifice, title, constitution, by laws, temporal and spiritual business, bill Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1838, c.18, passed February 23, 1838 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.