House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1230A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Josiah Bartlett

<p>Petition subject: Against railroad discrimination with focus on white passengers </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029518">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029518</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Concord </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Anthony Wright, Concord; committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Josiah Bartlett</li><li>John Thoreau</li><li>Barzillai Frost</li><li>Francis Bigelow</li><li>Caroline Hoar</li><li>Mercy Vose</li><li>Abby Alcott</li><li>Cynthia Thoreau</li><li>Prudence Ward</li><li>Ellen Garrison</li><li>Susan Barrett</li><li>Mary Blanchard</li><li>Maria Thoreau</li><li>Jane Thoreau</li><li>Helen Thoreau</li><li>Anne Whiting</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-19,1843-01-21 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 19, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1843 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 146 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 19 </p> <p>Female signatures: 102 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 25 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], ["others"], ["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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Includes section of printed note to petitioners </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A </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>