DOI: 10.7910/dvn/qq2ms
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: To define rights on railroads &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858149"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858149&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: Several names from a committee [Seth Sprague Jr., Robinson (Frederick Robinson?), Charles Francis Adams, George Hood, David Joy] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles T. Torrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry W. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel P. Bishop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis George Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Minot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederick Douglass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Cushing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Curtis Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;B. Weeden [Benjamin Weeden?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Guess&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert L. Bird&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W.F. Mellen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis L. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William G. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-14,1842-01-15 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 14, 1842 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 15, 1842 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 90 &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): 90 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [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;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 &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;