House Unpassed Legislation 1798, Docket 4702, SC1/series 230, Petition of Walter Folger

<p>Petition subject: Better treatment of men on whaling ships </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935268">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935268</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1798-02-22 </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Walter Folger</li><li>Moses Mitchell</li><li>Shubael Coffin</li><li>James Barker</li><li>Obed Macy</li><li>Paul Gardner Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1798-03-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred on March 2, 1798 </p> <p>Total signatures: 98 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 98 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: subscribers of the town of Nantucket </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: class of people which man our ships in the whale fishery, the illiterate and ignorant whites, the free black men and the native Indians, New Bedford, iniquitous practices, made use of to accumulate wealth, oppressed class of people, rights, remedy the evils </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1798, Docket 4702 </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>