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

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against slave hunting &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858743"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858743&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: Moses Kimball, Boston; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Stevens&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles C. Briggs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles J. Coffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&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;Annie Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grace H. Austin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louise M. Jacobs [Louisa M. Jacobs?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline C. Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George A. Newcomb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza F. Eddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha D. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H. Louisa Chapin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Annie Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lysander Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederic H. Henshaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Hoyt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Eldridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Scarlett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Julia A. Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bela Marsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Tufts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James H. Dix&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Sella Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Bean&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John A. Grimes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth C. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fannie A. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah A. Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary A. Chester&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Calvin Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. A.M. Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan A. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clarissa J. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Nell Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Riley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Angeline B. Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Angeline B. Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Ball&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter F. Gill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-07 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 7, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 721 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 353 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 215 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 31 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 122 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females 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: M.D. and Dr. next to signatures, including in the "other adults" column; does not follow column separations for the entire petition; some signatures from Chelsea; signatures repeated &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;