Senate Unpassed Legislation 1834, Docket 9505, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin Davenport

Petition subject: Individual case of discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148859 Date of creation: (unknown) Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Bailey, Norfolk; committee on education Selected signatures:Benjamin DavenportOtis ThayerWilliam GreenWilliam HastingsSeth DavenportGeorge StaplesJohn G. MetcalfArthur Cook Jr.Charles C.P. HastingsHenry A. AldrichElijah HaywardObadiah WoodAdin BallouDaniel WoodD.L. Child [David Lee Child] Actions taken on dates: 1834-02-07,1834-03-01 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 7, 1834 and referred to the committee on education and received in the Senate on March 1, 1834 and reported leave to withdraw Total signatures: 23 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, leave to withdraw Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 23 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Sullivan D. Anthony, admission, application, prior to May 1833, eleven years of age, New England Asylum for the Blind, Mendon, education, schools, Worcester county, has for six years been totally blind, resolve, rejected, refused admission on account of his color, trustees, [Perkins School for the Blind] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1834, Docket 9505 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.