Passed Acts; St. 1787, c.48, SC1/series 229, Petition of Prince Hall

Petition subject: Abolition of the slave trade Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12176678 Date of creation: 1788-02-27 Petition location: [Boston] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Prince HallPrimus HallJohn KingBoston Ballard[John Matlock?]Britton BalchCyrus ForbesThomas SaundersonLancaster HillCato UnderwoodSharper GardnerJuba HillRichard PollardWilliam SmithJames PellJohn CooperJoseph HicksJames HicksGeorge MillerJames HookerMatthew CoxCato GrayRobert Jackson Actions taken on dates: 1788-03-14,1788-03-19,1788-03-20,1788-03-20,1788-03-26 Legislative action: Act received in the Senate on March 14, 1788, read several times, passed, and sent down for concurrence and received in the House on March 19, 1788 and read and concurred with amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 20, 1788 and read and concurred with nonconcurrence and changes to the amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 20, 1788 and concurred and enacted March 26, 1788 Total signatures: 23 Legislative action summary: Received, read, passed, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, concurred, enacted Males of color signatures: 23 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a great number of blacks, free men of this commonwelth, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: seamen, kidnapping, sold for slaves, Africa Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1787, c.48, passed March 26, 1788 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.