Petitions

Petition to Board of Trustees to reestablish football at Brigham Young University, 1919 May 30

Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231035426]

Identifier: UA 148 Item 7

Dates: 1919 May 30

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Board of Trustees records

Petition to Harriet A. Kane, 1891 February 27

Item — Box 37: Series 7 [Barcode: 31197232551033], Folder: 8

Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 7 Sub-Series 1

Scope and Contents

Unsigned petition to be sent to Congress regarding the passage of a bill for the appointment of a forest commissioner, and 2 other documents promoting the bill, sent to Dr. Harriet A. Kane, Kane, from Philadelphia, includes envelope, postmarked 27 February 1891.

Dates: 1891 February 27

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Kane family papers / Kane family personal papers / Harriet Amelia Kane papers

Petition to Joseph Smith requesting military arms and equipment, 1843 September 9

Item — Box 4: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197233284212], Folder: 5

Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 1 Sub-Series 4 Item 1

Scope and Contents

Signed petition by various officers of the Nauvoo Legion asking Smith to request arms and other military supplies from the Illinois state government.

Dates: 1843 September 9

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Newel Kimball Whitney collection on Mormon Church / Newel Kimball Whitney collection on military units

Petition to Joseph Smith requesting military arms and equipment

Digital Record

Identifier: VMSS76_S1_SS4_B4_F5_I1

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Petition to the New York State Legislature

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227626196]

Identifier: MSS 4056

Scope and Contents

Petition addressed "To the Honorable the Legislature of the State, State of New York," asking them to establish the Town of Lodi because of uncomfortable population density. The "petitioners believ[e] they will be better accommodated for by a division of said Town." December 1825. 5 photocopied pages long, including 4 pages of signatures. Yellow cover sheet including record of legislation to establish the town of Lodi, 27 January 1826.

Dates: 1825

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Petitions placed before Congress, 1840-1844

Series

Identifier: MSS 942 Series 2

Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

Photocopies of handwritten and printed petitions, affidavits, and published and unpublished accounts of the persecutions suffered by the Mormons in Missouri. The materials were an attempt to get redress for their grievences, especially relating to their expulsion from Missouri in 1839. The items were acquired from the National Archives and Record Service in Washington, D.C.

Material pertaining to the Missouri persecutions of the Church, 1839. As found at the National Archives.

Dates: Other: 1840-1844

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / National Archives material on the persecutions of the Church in Missouri

Published materials, 1839-1841

Series

Identifier: MSS 942 Series 1

Scope and Contents note From the Collection:

Photocopies of handwritten and printed petitions, affidavits, and published and unpublished accounts of the persecutions suffered by the Mormons in Missouri. The materials were an attempt to get redress for their grievences, especially relating to their expulsion from Missouri in 1839. The items were acquired from the National Archives and Record Service in Washington, D.C.

Material pertaining to the Missouri persecutions of the Church, 1839. As found at the National Archives.

Dates: Other: 1839-1841

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / National Archives material on the persecutions of the Church in Missouri