Passed Acts; St. 1843, c.5, SC1/series 229, Petition of Francis Jackson

Petition subject: Interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation law Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670411 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Francis Adams, Boston; several names from a committee; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others Selected signatures:Francis JacksonHenry I. BowditchFrancis George ShawEllis Gray LoringGeorge MinotHervey E. WestonWilliam F. ChanningCharles K. WhippleWilliam C. NellSamuel E. SewallWilliam B. LoganJoel P. BishopCharles A. BattisteBenjamin F. RobertsSarah P. RemondCharles Lenox RemondJohn Lenox RemondRobert MorrisJohn T. HiltonWendell PhillipsBenjamin P. BassettGeorge W.F. MellenWilliam H. AllenJoseph Southwick Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-11,1843-01-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 11, 1843 and referred to a committee and received in the Senate on January 13, 1843 and concurred Total signatures: 69 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 54 Female signatures: 2 Females of color signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 13 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1843, c.5, passed February 25, 1843 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.