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

Petition subject: Better treatment of men on whaling ships Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935268 Date of creation: 1798-02-22 Petition location: Nantucket Selected signatures:Walter FolgerMoses MitchellShubael CoffinJames BarkerObed MacyPaul Gardner Jr. Actions taken on dates: 1798-03-02 Legislative action: Referred on March 2, 1798 Total signatures: 98 Legislative action summary: Referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 98 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: subscribers of the town of Nantucket Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents 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 Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1798, Docket 4702 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.