House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Brigham

Petition subject: Women may be allowed to vote and hold office Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029709 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Feltonville Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Charles BrighamSarah Ann WoodHarriet Brigham Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 41 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 Female signatures: 21 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, should be voters, [females], ["women who should vote"], ["women"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage, [numbers switched for columns] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2577 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.