House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Benjamin Brown Jr.

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956459">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956459</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: West Newbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James R. Cushing, Haverhill; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Benjamin Brown Jr.</li><li>John Hoyt</li><li>Amos Carlton</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-21,1842-01-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1842 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 22, 1842 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 26 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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>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 1842, Docket 1153 </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>