DOI: 10.7910/dvn/s3bmvo
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1877, committee on military affairs - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 230, Petition of James R. Reynolds

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:25763597"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763597&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1877-01-19 &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: Joseph Buckminster, New Bedford; committee on military affairs &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;James R. Reynolds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Harris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Everett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph H. Shefton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles C. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Allen L. Lee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James H. Warfield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas J. Wainer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Gainville&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Boon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Lee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Rollins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank E. Binks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Fowler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Goldsmith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Lloyd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James D. Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen H. Simmons&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Blair Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles F. Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel E. Griffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James H. Reynolds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elijah Madison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Steavens&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John R. West&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Harrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1877-01-25,1877-01-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1877 and referred to the committee on military affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 26, 1877 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 44 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 44 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: who were members of the Schouler Guards, a military company located in New Bedford and disbanded by the state law enacted last year, [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 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1877, 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;