House Unpassed Legislation 1871, committee on federal relations - not presented, SC1/series 230, Petition of Frederic Dwight

<p>Petition subject: Colonization </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763586">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763586</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1871-02-22 </p> <p>Petition location: Agawam </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Quincy Adams, Quincy; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Frederic Dwight</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Not presented </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Not presented </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: legislation, Congress, Lieutenant General of the Department of the East, Blackstone, constitutinoal law, banks, corporations, railroads, highways, taxes, taxation, town meeting, telegraph, governor, council, state elections, national convention, declaration that to Africa belong the Africans, cum ense, cum justitia, sun, sunflower, where liberty there country, the mowing machine horse-rake and hay-pitcher, agriculture, whale cofish mackerel salmon shad, fisheries, wheel lever screw, mechanic arts, open book truth, common sense is commonwealth, Frederick Dwight </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1871, committee on federal relations - not presented </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>