House Unpassed Legislation 1832, Docket 11833, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Hall

Petition subject: Arrest Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935281 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:William Hall Actions taken on dates: 1832-01-31,1832-02-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1832 and referred to a committee on the judiciary and leave to withdraw on February 20, 1832 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, leave to withdraw Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Masons, arrested, constable, warrant, Benjamin Whitman, one of the police justices of the city of Boston, vagabond, negro, black and yallow fellow, negro and the molatto, both of the negro lodge of masons, evidence, house of correction, defrauded of his constitutional right, right to trial by jury, redress, investigation, power and authority of the police court, fraternity, Francis Oliver of Boston, freemason, settlement, statement, Thomas Powers, Knight Temple, printed, act of laying before the public, right to appeal, poor, New York, bail, imprisonment, witnesses, military service, veteran, Revolutionary War, publishing a statement of facts, John Thatcher, James Allyne, [James Allen?], clerk of the district court, Daniel Webster, haughty and self sufficient judge, Judge Roggers, Judge Rogers, George Reed, prison, lose his confidence in the government Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1832, Docket 11833 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.