DOI: 10.7910/dvn/btlaf
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: For the removal of the statue of Daniel Webster &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858624"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858624&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: Nathaniel H. Whiting, Plymouth; committee on the state house &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Boyce Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Eldridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Redpath&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah B. Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen E. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha B. Goodrich&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Kent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rachel Babcock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Tufts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell P. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles L. Mitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Estabrook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Jewett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George T. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Hoyt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Slack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ignatius Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John A. Grimes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas B. Rice&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas H. Hinckley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adams Twitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-23,1860-02-24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 23, 1860 and referred to the committee on the state house and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 24, 1860 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 123 &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): 89 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 5 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 8 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, non-voters, [females], [other males], [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;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: column separated &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: Some of the right hand side sections are legal voters; two signatures crossed out with the note "signature above" &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, 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;