DOI: 10.7910/dvn/htbqk
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1861, referred to next General Court, SC1/series 230, Petition of J. Sella Martin

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:11018091"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018091&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &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: Simeon P. Adams, Boston; joint special committee on the governor's address &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Sella Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simeon P. Adams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rufus Gilbert&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enoch Saunders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James F. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caleb G. Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H.H.G. Scott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fleming Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Bohea&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Jenkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;T.W. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Holley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas W. Steamburg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.H. Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira N. Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A.L. Barrett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E. Francis Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Thompson Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;T.O. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;F.B. Joy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[D. Orlando Fisk?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1861-05-15,1861-05-15 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on May 15, 1861 and referred to the joint special committee on the governor's address and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on May 15, 1861 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [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: To remove the word “white” from the militia laws, anomalous to the spirit of justice and equality, desire to be recognized by the law as competeul to and worthy of defending our homes and the government that protects those homes &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1861, referred to next General Court &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;