Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11330, SC1/series 231, Petition of J.B. Dinsmoor

<p>Petition subject: To allow free colored foreigners to become United States citizens </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381153">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381153</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Essex; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>J.B. Dinsmoor</li><li>Amos Hull</li><li>Isaac Whitney</li><li>James Hagerty</li><li>George Mansfield</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-17,1843-01-19 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 17, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1843 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 100 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 100 </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: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11330 </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>