House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1724, SC1/series 230, Petition of Franklin Williams

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029561">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029561</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Roxbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the Georgia resolutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Franklin Williams</li><li>Alfred Williams</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1846-03-10,1846-03-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 10, 1846 and referred to the committee on the Georgia resolutions and tabeled on March 10, 1846 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, inhabitants </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1724 </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>