Passed Acts; St. 1845, c.214, SC1/series 229, Petition of Edward J. Pompey

<p>Petition subject: School discrimination </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520834">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520834</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward J. Pompey</li><li>Absalom F. Boston</li><li>Hannah Boston</li><li>Caroline D. Clough</li><li>Susan Harris</li><li>Phebe Williams</li><li>Ann Cooper</li><li>Sarah Ross</li><li>Phebe Ann Harris</li><li>Arthur Cooper</li><li>Lucy Cooper</li><li>Mary Cuffe</li><li>Bristol Wright</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-10,1845-01-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 10, 1845 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 11, 1845 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 105 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36 </p> <p>Female signatures: 69 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females 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>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: For amendment to extend to all children the same education rights; "…they can have no instruction from the town, unless, they submit to insults and outrages upon their rights, quite equal to being imprisoned in a South Carolina jail; and for no other reason, but color." </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.214, passed March 25, 1845 </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>