DOI: 10.7910/dvn/0bc9ye
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1858, Senate laid on the table, SC1/series 230, Petition of Philip L. Moen

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Removal of Edward Greeley Loring &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029824"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029824&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Worcester &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philip L. Moen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Chapin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caleb A. Wall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah E. Wall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Mason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Hemenway&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances Hemenway&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma Hemenway&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucinda Cummings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Mason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Molineaux&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward B. Gimby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen S. Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gerry Valentine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ruth Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Virginia Molineaux&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Allen Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gilbert Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah F. Earle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George F. Hoar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard T. Buck&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1858-01-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1858 and laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 233 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 185 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 34 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 6 &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], [females of color], [males of color], ["others"], ["mostly legal voters"] &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: [Aaron Molyneaux Hewlett] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1858, laid on the table &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;