House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1724, SC1/series 230, Petition of Francis Jackson

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029565">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029565</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry Wilson, Natick; committee on the Georgia resolutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Francis Jackson</li><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>Loring Moody</li><li>Ignatius Sargent</li><li>Wendell Phillips</li><li>Charles K. Whipple</li><li>Edmund Jackson</li><li>Henry I. Bowditch</li><li>Charles Spear</li><li>Thomas Wentworth Higginson</li><li>Jonathan Walker</li><li>John M. Spear</li><li>Frederick S. Cabot</li><li>William C. Nell</li><li>Charles Lenox Remond</li><li>George W. Pierce</li><li>John Allen</li><li>Robert R. Crosby</li><li>Amos Bronson Alcott</li><li>John O. Burleigh</li><li>William P. Atkinson</li><li>William W. Marjoram</li><li>Henry W. Williams</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 27, 1846 and referred to the committee on the Georgia resolutions and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 34 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 34 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, inhabitants, [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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Gloucester, Chelsea, Salem, Brook Farm Phalanx, Concord, Grafton, North Roxbury </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1724 </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>