House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1891, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonas Parker

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029594">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029594</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Reading </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel Pratt, Reading; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Jonas Parker</li><li>Sarah Temple</li><li>Rebekah Parker</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1847-03-18 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 18, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 29 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 15 </p> <p>Female signatures: 12 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, non voters, [females], [other males], ["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: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Signature numbers different from front of petition </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1847, Docket 1891 </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>