DOI: 10.7910/dvn/cj6qs
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1856, Docket 18532, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666566"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666566&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Oliver Warner, Hampshire; next general court &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theodore Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas J. Hunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William S. George&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles F. Hovey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elbridge Sprague&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James M.W. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George A. Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James N. Buffum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Stanton Baldwin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Bronson Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Thaxter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Wells Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Slack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lenox Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John M. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Grimes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Bigelow&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1856-05-06,1856-05-08 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 6, 1856 and referred to the next general court and sent for concurrence and received in the House on May 8, 1856 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 69 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: 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: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: M.D. next to William F. Channing signature &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18532 &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;