House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 2712, SC1/series 230, Petition of Thomas Haskell

<p>Petition subject: Women may be allowed to vote and hold office </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029714">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029714</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Gloucester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Mehitable Haskell, Essex, care of Jacob Burnham; John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Haskell</li><li>Jonathan H. Riggs</li><li>Sarah E. Haskell</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-25 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 25, 1851 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 22 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 </p> <p>Female signatures: 14 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: women's suffrage </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 2712 </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>