Senate Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 18373, SC1/series 231, Petition of B.B. Mussey [Benjamin B. Mussey]

<p>Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858486">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858486</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George F. Williams, Boston; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>B.B. Mussey [Benjamin B. Mussey]</li><li>William Storrs</li><li>John W. Anderson</li><li>John Johnson</li><li>Hiram Hess</li><li>Bela Marsh</li><li>Robert Roberts</li><li>Edmund Jackson</li><li>George N. Noyes</li><li>Mary B. Whiting</li><li>Hannah Blood</li><li>Mary K. Coburn</li><li>Joseph Twitchell</li><li>George T. Garrison</li><li>Sarah P. Baxter</li><li>Louisa Jacobs</li><li>John T. Sargent</li><li>Edwin G. Walker</li><li>Lysander Spooner</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-02,1855-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1855 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1271 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 680 </p> <p>Female signatures: 136 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 37 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 418 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal voters, other persons, [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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Part of the petition separates legal voters from others </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373 </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>