DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ucfc5
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 18373, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel May

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:11858497"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858497&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: George F. Williams, Boston; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alvah A. Burrage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edwin Coombs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William P. Atkinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Parker Knox&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelius Bramhall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lysander Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George A. Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Augustine C. Taft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James M.W. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Thaxter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hervey E. Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John M. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alvan Howes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Cheever&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry H. Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron A. Bradley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joanna C. Mitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-09,1855-02-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1855 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 85 &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): 76 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 4 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 5 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: legal voters, non voters, [females], [other males], [males of color], ["others"], ["citizens of Boston and vicinity"] &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;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373 &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;