Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of Josiah Macy

<p>Petition subject: To define rights on railroads </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858142">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858142</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Joy, Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Josiah Macy</li><li>Peleg Folger</li><li>Thomas Rand</li><li>George Gardner</li><li>George Coffin</li><li>David Huntington</li><li>Jane Hewes</li><li>Lewis Green</li><li>Arthur Cooper</li><li>David Joy</li><li>Isaac Austin</li><li>Wesley Berry</li><li>Anna Gardner</li><li>Edward J. Pompey</li><li>Freeman Sherman</li><li>Eunice F. Ross</li><li>George Bradburn</li><li>Ann Gardner</li><li>Martha Mitchell</li><li>James Plato</li><li>Maria Cooper</li><li>James Ross</li><li>Caroline Pompey</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 158 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69 </p> <p>Female signatures: 69 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 20 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["persons"], ["men"], ["women"], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 </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>