Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10883, SC1/series 231, Petition of Elisha Huntington

Petition subject: To allow free colored foreigners to become United States citizens Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381147 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Elisha Bartlett, Lowell; committee on slavery Selected signatures:Elisha HuntingtonSamuel WoodAmbrose CharlesHenry TideIsaac EmersonAbram FrenchJohn H. BlakeLewis D. BoiseJames H. RandSilas DeanWilliam PrescottHorace HowardCharles WilderWilliam BlanchardBenjamin WingMatthias ParkhurstHenry RichardsonRansom ReedEphraim PeabodyGoodwin WoodRoyal SouthwickDavid DanaJames TowerCyrus FerrinRufus RussellJohn JohnsonGeorge CrosbyStephen GoodhueGeorge WardGeorge ButterfieldSamuel LawrencePeter AndersonAmos UptonJohn P. RobinsonFrancis HazeltonIsaac FarringtonDaniel HutchinsonRodney EmersonBenjamin Butler Actions taken on dates: 1841-01-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1841 and referred to the committee on slavery and received in the Senate in 1841 with resolution relative to naturalization laws Total signatures: 191 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, resolution Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 191 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: naturalization laws, citizenship Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10883 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.