DOI: 10.7910/dvn/5z0hq
title: Passed Acts; St. 1787, c.48, SC1/series 229, Petition of Prince Hall

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Abolition of the slave trade &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12176678"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12176678&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1788-02-27 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: [Boston] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prince Hall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Primus Hall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John King&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Boston Ballard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[John Matlock?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Britton Balch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Forbes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Saunderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lancaster Hill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cato Underwood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sharper Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Juba Hill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Pollard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Pell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Hicks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Miller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Hooker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthew Cox&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cato Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1788-03-14,1788-03-19,1788-03-20,1788-03-20,1788-03-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Act received in the Senate on March 14, 1788, read several times, passed, and sent down for concurrence and received in the House on March 19, 1788 and read and concurred with amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 20, 1788 and read and concurred with nonconcurrence and changes to the amendments and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 20, 1788 and concurred and enacted March 26, 1788 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 23 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, read, passed, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, read, concurred, amended, sent, received, concurred, enacted &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 23 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: a great number of blacks, free men of this commonwelth, [males of color] &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: seamen, kidnapping, sold for slaves, Africa &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1787, c.48, passed March 26, 1788 &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;