House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Harriet Jones

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956456">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956456</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Kinnicutt, Worcester; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Harriet Jones</li><li>Sarah H. Earle</li><li>Susan Edwards</li><li>Sarah E. Wall</li><li>Sarah Wall</li><li>Zona Gimbee</li><li>Emily Whipple</li><li>Lucretia Roberts</li><li>Lucy Chase</li><li>Lydia E. Chase</li><li>Mary Morey</li><li>Hepzeybeth Hemmenway</li><li>Charlotte E. Walker</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-31,1842-02-01 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1842 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and sent up or concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1842 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 247 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Female signatures: 247 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], [females of color], ["women"] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [Lydia Earle Chase, Hepsibeth Hemenway] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153 </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>