Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder alphabetically by municipality
Notes: Formerly part of Miscellaneous collection; box 88
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Notes: Two scrapbooks contain petition cards and letters favoring national prohibition, received by Eugene N. Foss, who ran unsuccessfully in 1915 for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts on a prohibition platform
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically thereunder alphabetically by county
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection; box 88
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Scope and Content: As part of its licensing function, the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and its predecessor in this function, the Board of Harbor Commissioners (1866-1879), received petitions from persons requesting permission to build structures in lands adjacent to the water or to solid fill or dredge in tidewaters and harbors. Petitions approved by commissioners resulted in permits and licenses and are recorded in annual reports and minutes.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date petition was received. arranged chronologically in reverse order
Notes: Petitions missing for 1884, 1887-1893, 1904; there are very few petitions for 1872-1878 and 1882-1887.Petitions for 1879-1887 glued into two letterbooks (box 10)
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Scope and Content: A joint special committee of the Massachusetts General Court was established in 1845 to consider more stringent liquor licensing legislation in response to citizen petitions received by the legislature. Many petitions are headed by printed text with county/municipality of origin, with signatures attached.
Arrangement: Arranged by locality
Notes: Petitions taken from: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Senate unpassed legislation ((M-Ar)231), 1845, docket 11679
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Scope and Content: The Brunswick Convention met Sept. 30-Oct. 9, 1816, to consider separating the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state. Although a Sept. 2 vote of Maine inhabitants taken along with election of convention delegates failed to produce the five-to-four pro-separation majority mandated by St 1816, c 41, convention leaders chose to regard the actual majority as sufficient to proceed with the separation process. Petitions are remonstrances sent by Maine towns to the General Court, Oct.-Dec. 1816, protesting actions of pro-separation convention delegates.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous collection, box 17; Forms part of: Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: Petitions were sent by towns in the District of Maine to the Jan. 1816 session of the General Court requesting legislation to establish Maine as a separate state.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Formerly part of state secretary’s: Miscellaneous collection, box 17; Forms part of: Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, was instigated by petitions sent by Maine towns to the May 1819 session of the General Court. This series includes petitions opposing such legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Removed from original papers for St 1819, c 161 (Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Passed acts ((M-Ar)229)) by N. Olsberg, Apr. 1979.; Forms part of : Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: St 1819, c 161, an act to provide for separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts as a state, was instigated by petitions sent by Maine towns to the May 1819 session of the General Court. This series includes ca. 170 petitions constituting the large majority favoring such legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by town
Notes: Removed from original papers for St 1819, c 161 (Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Passed acts ((M-Ar)229)) by N. Olsberg, Apr. 1979.; Forms part of : Separation of Maine papers
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34. Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by county treasurers and clerks of the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties upon their establishment per St 1827, c 77 (1828). The government of Middlesex County was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997)
Notes: Box 1: Charts. Box 2: Buildings. Box 3: Persons. Boxes 4-5: Assorted
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