House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2552, SC1/series 230, Petition of Francis Jackson

Petition subject: Secession from the Union Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029695 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Albert Tolman, Worcester Selected signatures:Francis JacksonCharles PalmerJames JacksonIgnatius SargentHenry J. PrentissElizabeth FosterJohn W. HiltonWendell PhillipsRobert F. WalcuttSamuel May Jr.Ann G. PhillipsWilliam Lloyd GarrisonEdmund JacksonWilliam I. BowditchCharles K. WhippleRobert MorrisAnna GardnerMary G. ChapmanWilliam CraftHenry Box BrownLucy StoneEllen CraftJoseph HaydenLewis HaydenJohn T. HiltonGeorge WashingtonRobert JohnsonThomas CummingsCoffin PittsHenry WeedenOscar T. Higgins Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1850 and laid on the table Total signatures: 126 Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85 Female signatures: 20 Other male signatures: 13 Unidentified signatures: 8 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["other persons"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Fugitive slave names are in the "other" column Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2552 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.