Passed Resolves; Resolves 1838, c.34, SC1/series 228, Petition of A.F. Boston [Absalom F. Boston]

<p>Petition subject: Racial discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670525">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670525</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Barker Burnell, Nantucket; committee on the abolition of slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>A.F. Boston [Absalom F. Boston]</li><li>William Boston</li><li>Henry Boston</li><li>Lucy S. Morris</li><li>Mary Barry</li><li>Susan Harris</li><li>Lucy Cooper</li><li>Elizabeth Cooper</li><li>Lydia Green</li><li>Sarah Ross</li><li>Eunice F. Ross</li><li>Cyrus Cooper</li><li>Arthur Cooper</li><li>Margaret Cooper</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1838-01-13,1838-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 13, 1838 and referred to the committee on the abolition of slavery and received in the House on January 15, 1838 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 52 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 24 </p> <p>Female signatures: 28 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, male, female, [males of color], [females of color], ["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: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Reverend </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.34, passed March 16, 1838 </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>