DOI: 10.7910/dvn/tnnsv
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1856, Docket 18524, SC1/series 231, Petition of Robert Morris

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Military companies &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666565"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666565&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: Charles E. Pike, Newton; committee on the militia &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1856-04-08,1856-04-11,1856-04-12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on April 8, 1856 and referred to the committee on the militia and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 11, 1856 and laid on the table and received in the Senate on April 12, 1856 and taken from table and nonconcurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, laid on the table, received, taken from table, nonconcurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: memorialist, attorney for petitioners, [males of color], ["in behalf of Jonas W. Clark and 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: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Jonas W. Clark and thirty three others, charter or right to form a military company among the coloured young men of the city of Boston, specially requested a hearing, leave to withdraw, George H. Devereux, chairman, Massasoit Guards, United States Law of 1794, free able bodied white citizens, 17 Rail Road Exchange, specially solicited a hearing, improper and unjust and contrary to all former precedents, Governor, Ohio and Rhode Island have granted to the coloured young men resident therein just such a right as we ask our state to grant to us, military corps, Cincinnati, Providence, report, instead of being conclusive and precluding argument admit of a plain and easy reply, convention of 1853, Henry K. Oliver, voluntary and not compulsory service, volunteer militia, debate, Nathaniel P. Banks, extinction of the old system, 1840, citizen soldiers, Louisburg, French War, conquest of Canada, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, John Adams, Colonel Greene, fort at Red Bank, Count Donop, Carl von Donop, 1777, General Andrew Jackson, Louisiana, Great Britain, noble hearted generous freemen of colour, Americans, sons of freedom, Alfred G. Howard, John V. De Grasse, Benjamin C. Gregory, Independent Military Company, 48 men, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18524 &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;