Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11081, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Carruthers

Petition subject: Against the gag rule with resolutions on the Creole and the Amistad Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858197 Date of creation: 1842-01-22 Petition location: Amesbury, Salisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Appleton Howe, Norfolk; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others Selected signatures:William CarruthersJohn Greenleaf Whittier Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-25,1842-01-25 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1842 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 25, 1842 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: public meeting of citizens, liberty party Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11081 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.