Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.22, SC1/series 229, Petition of Eli Thayer

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935188 Date of creation: (unknown) Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Fitch, Hopkinton; committee on the judiciary; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Eli ThayerAmos A. LawrenceJohn WilliamsThomas H. Webb Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-20,1855-01-23 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 20, 1855 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on January 23, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence. Total signatures: 4 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, sent for concurrence Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: undersigned, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: New England Emigrant Aid Company, emigration westward, settlements, charter, Kansas, free state, slave state, Eli Thayer, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 20,000 immigrants, Missouri, Bleeding Kansas, Alexander H. Bullock, Edward Everett Hale, Lawrence, Manhattan, Topeka, Osawatomie, Amos Lawrence Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.22, passed February 21, 1855 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.