The select committee of this House, to whom was referred the petition of George Bradburn, praying the Legislature to indemnify the proprietors of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, have had the subject under consideration and report ... / Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

[Boston, Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], [1842]

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House (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives) ; 1842, no. 30.

A Select Committee considered the petition of George Bradburn and issued a report. Nearly eight years previously, a mob attacked and burned the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown and drove the nuns and students into the woods. Law enforcement people did not attempt to defuse the crowd or stop the riot. The Committee laid out a proposition: there was an implied contract between the state and property owners that the state would preserve property against such destruction. The Committee discussed the absence of laws to manage mobs. The Ursulines had not rebuilt the convent. The Committee proposed that a select committee of five would develop a damage figure and either give the Ursulines cash or buy the deserted property. The report is signed at end by George T. Curtis, Chairman.

"The substance of what took place on the night of the 11th of August, 1834, may for the purposes of the present discussion, be stated to be: That the building and its contents of furniture, clothes, books, musical instruments and other appatus of instruction, together with much other valuable property, partly belonging to the proprietors of the establishment, and partly to the children resident there, were destroyed, burnt and pillaged by a mob, in the night, the immediate incitement of whose lawless conduct was an unfounded rumor against the purity of the institution, coupled with religious hatred."--Page 2.

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Print version: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives. Select Committee on the Petition of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown. Report. Select Committee of this House, to whom was referred the petition of George Bradburn, praying the Legislature to indemnify the proprietors of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, have had the subject under consideration and report ... [Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1842]

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