Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10544, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

Petition subject: For actions against the foreign slave trade and American Colonization Society Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11149105 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket; committee on a petition of Henry Edwards and others Selected signatures:Francis JacksonAmos A. PhelpsEdmund QuincyEllis Gray LoringCharles P. BossonHenry G. ChapmanSamuel PhilbrickEdmund JacksonJohn E. FullerWendell PhillipsRoswell GossSamuel E. SewallJoseph H. EayrsSamuel MayJacob NoyesGeorge CushingSamuel JonesBenjamin HatchEnoch PeabodyIsaac KnappMichael BrownJohn RogersT.W. DurantEliphalet BrownBenjamin FrostClement DrewJohn PutnamGeorge AdamsWilliam F. ChanningAllen SpoonerJohn EliJohn DickinsonRoswell GossJoseph HartJoseph SouthwickJohnson DavieBenjamin WeedenPrescott DickinsonJohn AugustusCharles BarryRufus BrooksFrancis BrownBenjamin MirickGeorge GordonMicajah WoodJoel W. LewisPeter HowardGeorge TolliverThomas BrookeJohn FatalCharles RobertsSolomon R. AlexanderGeorge W. RickerJohn B. CutlerIsaac WoodlandJoseph ThompsonSamuel CookWilliam WaterhouseDavid KeithJohn T. HiltonGeorge H. BlackSamuel JasperSolomon R. AlexanderC.R. WeedenThomas ColeLuther SandersonWarren EllisSamuel CushingPerez GillWilliam PerryOrin CarpenterAaron GuildJames SearlesJacob BaconJoseph NoyesAmbrose KingmanPeter SanbornCharles PerkinsLuther ParkerLucy ParkerLuther WestonJohn BancroftRufus DamonMary DamonHannah DamonJoseph BryantAugusta NicholsAsa ParkerEsther TaylerJonathan FrostDaniel PutmanGilman KingmanJoseph PrattEdward YoungLouisa WakefieldJonas ParkerLydia ParkerAbigail RichardsonSamuel CarterLydia PeabodyReuben WestonCharlotte RichardsonGilman GleaserDavid NicholsCharles TempleEsther E. FrenchNancy A. GleasonSarah G. TempleEmeline A. PrattMartha NicholsAlmira BaldwinSarah D. CogginGeorge BaldwinEdward FowleSilas EmersonHiram SweetserAlbert EmersonJohn SanbornCharles GalagherSusan PeabodyLucinda PrattMelisent PeabodyMatilda Peabody Actions taken on dates: 1839-02-08,1839-02-09 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1839 and referred to the committee on a petition of Henry Edwards and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1839 and concurred Total signatures: 229 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 162 Female signatures: 41 Unidentified signatures: 26 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Reverend, foreign slave trade, great atrocities than at any former period, Americans and American capital are very extensively embarked in it, government of the United States, treaty with Great Britain and other powers, mutual right of search, vessels, slaver, escape detection by running up the American flag, trade can never be entirely abolished until the market for slaves is abolished by the universal and entire abolition of slavery itself, commerce, natural productions of Africa, Liberian Colonies, actual participants in it, resolve, mutual right of searching slave vessels, justice, humanity, president, American Colonization Society, protracting the existence of slavery and at the same time affording increased facilities to the trade to foster and extend it, [includes notes on back, George Baldwin, possibly on music?] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10544 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.