DOI: 10.7910/dvn/mexuu
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 11662, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin F. Roberts

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Removal of the word "color" from the statue books &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381156"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381156&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1845-01-15 &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: Committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Guess&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lawson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Peyyton Stewart?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Battiste&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Rose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Tyler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.W. Rich&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Broombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Ferguson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Prescott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James F. Bligh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel W. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Fatal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Maddox&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H. Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Avery&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Henderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Turner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Grandee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Latimer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry A. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Armstead&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon R. Alexander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis P. Clary&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A.G. Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Gigger&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Henry Amon?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John A. Powell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Laing Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas H. Tompkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John St. Pierre&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Wilson Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abram Simpson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Lockley Marshall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edwin More&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Scott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Hogan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Floyd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Thacker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaiah Harrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Giles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;D. Webster Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Merrick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Alley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 21, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 67 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 67 &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: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: city officers, annual lists of qualified voters, insertion of the word col., colored, injustice of placing a note of distinction against the names of any portion of the citizens of this commonwealth, outrage on rights, color, great disadvantage, denial of certain rights and privileges, citizenship, equal rights and privileges &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1845, Docket 11662 &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;