House Unpassed Legislation 1861, discharged by committee, SC1/series 230, Petition of Robert Morris

<p>Petition subject: Military companies </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018094">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018094</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on militia </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Robert Morris</li><li>John S. Rock</li><li>John V. de Grasse</li><li>George T. Downing</li><li>A.L. Barrett</li><li>Alexander Roberts</li><li>George Teamoh</li><li>William Dunn</li><li>John Oliver</li><li>John Bayley</li><li>John J. Smith</li><li>Fleming T. Johnson</li><li>J.L. Ruffin</li><li>T.R. Watson</li><li>Jeremiah Harvey</li><li>Thomas G. Williams</li><li>John H. Colbert</li><li>James Watkins</li><li>Richard L. Greener</li><li>John B. Bailey</li><li>Mark R. DeMortie</li><li>W.H. Simpson</li><li>Benjamin F. Washington</li><li>William Butler</li><li>L.D. Johnson</li><li>Lewis Hayden</li><li>John H. Jinkins</li><li>Joseph H. Johnson</li><li>William Redding</li><li>John Thomas</li><li>John T. Holley</li><li>William H. Christipher</li><li>J.W. Butler</li><li>H.G. Scott</li><li>George Churchwell</li><li>[Enoch Saunders?]</li><li>Francis Watkins</li><li>J. Samuel Thompson Jr.</li><li>Samuel Wye</li><li>J. Henry Smith</li><li>John Harris</li><li>William H. Atkins</li><li>P.E. Hawkins</li><li>John Atkins</li><li>J.B. Smith</li><li>Mathias H. Lewis</li><li>Joseph H. Smith</li><li>P.M. Howard</li><li>John Cotton</li><li>Joseph L. Barbadoes</li><li>William Grose</li><li>James F. Williams</li><li>Henry Smith</li><li>Isaac W. Smith</li><li>Cornelius A. Weeden</li><li>Charles Francis</li><li>James Gardner</li><li>Nathaniel Lee</li><li>Thomas W. Steamburg</li><li>Charles Jackson</li><li>Robert Johnson Jr.</li><li>W.H. Davis</li><li>W.W. Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-05-22,1861-05-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on May 22, 1861 and referred to the committee on militia and sent for conurrence and received in the Senate on May 22, 1861 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 66 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 66 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [males of color], ["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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: That colored citizens may form military companies; includes M.D. next to de Grasse signature, a ready disposition to be identified with a maintenance of the government in opposition to those who would overthrow it for the sake of slavery and having never done anything to forfeit the respect or our rights as equal citizens of the commonwealth; having always been loyal, as were our fathers in times of peace, as well as when the country was periled by the fathers of some now taken into your embrace, prohibition (as is alledged) exists on the part of the national government against the enrollment of colored men in the militia, chapter 13 section 36 of the general statutes of the state, elect officers </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1861, discharged by committee </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>