Petition of William C. Nell

Petition subject: Monument to Crispus Attucks Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381176 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James H. Briggs, Nantucket; committee on the militia Selected signatures:William C. NellCharles Lenox RemondHenry WeedenLewis HaydenLemuel BurrF.B. Barbadoes [Frederick B. Barbadoes?]J.B. Smith [Joshua Bowen Smith] Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-05,1851-03-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1851 and referred to the committee on the militia and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 7.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 7 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Natick 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. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars, head of State Street, memory of Crispus Attucks, first martyr of the American Revolution Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13339