Senate Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 11502, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Jackson

Petition subject: Anti-slavery actions of Senators Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858203 Date of creation: 1844-02-24 Petition location: Newton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Otis Trowbridge, Newton; joint special committee on the amendment of the constitution Selected signatures:William JacksonThomas BaileyWilliam KenrickTimothy Jackson Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-26,1844-02-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 26, 1844 and referred to the joint special committee on the amendment to the constitution with instructions to be printed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 27, 1844 and concurred as to the reference and noncurred as to the instructions Total signatures: 51 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, to be printed, received, concurred, nonconcurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [\"citizens\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jackson_(Massachusetts) Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1844, Docket 11502 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.