DOI: 10.7910/dvn/gfch2z
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1878, committee on military affairs - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles E. Allen

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Military companies &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763636"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763636&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1877-12-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: New Bedford &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hosea M. Knowlton, Bristol; committee on military affairs &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles E. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Allen L. Lee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[George Delouan?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Blair&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen H. Simmons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Gainville&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James H. Warfield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elijah Madison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph H. Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Wiggins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harrison Sutton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Oliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wadsworth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Green&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas W. Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas J. Wainer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James R. Reynolds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph H. Shepton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Carroll&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Harris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel E. Griffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hezekiah Webb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Taylor Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lawton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Drummond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1878-02-05,1878-02-06 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1878 and referred to the committee on military affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1878 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 48 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 48 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: members of the late Schouler Guards Company B 2nd Battalion M.V.M., Ex-Sergt., [males of color], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Schouler Guards, Ex-Sergeant &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1878, committee on military affairs - leave to withdraw &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;