Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858373 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Selected signatures:Francis JacksonCharles PalmerEliza F. EddyElizabeth M. CopelandJames JacksonFrederic FalsomJeremiah StoddardAnna M. HoytHenry T. ParkerR.E. Apthorp [Robert East Apthorp]Charles Francis AdamsCharles SumnerAllen SpoonerSamuel EldridgeRichard H. Dana Jr.Robert MorrisWilliam Lloyd GarrisonWilliam C. NellRobert F. WallcutSamuel May Jr.Joseph SouthwickJohn M. SpearHenry J. PrentissRobert R. CrosbyCharles K. WhippleWilliam C. BrownLouisa E. GrayMary C. BlanchardJoseph W. AllyneSarah NyeLysander SpoonerJohn P. CoburnBela MarshWilliam F. ChanningLewis HaydenHenry I. BowditchHenry W. WilliamsBenjamin B. AppletonGeorge WashingtonGeorge P. AtkinsIsabella StuartHervey E. WestonIsaac BarbadoesAnn Maria PartridgeGeorge W.F. MellenDaniel F. ChildJohn T. SargentTheodore ParkerAbel SmithEdmund JacksonSamuel Hoyt Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 1290 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 762 Female signatures: 276 Other male signatures: 105 Unidentified signatures: 147 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], [\"voters\"], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 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.