DOI: 10.7910/dvn/gvq1z
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1853, Docket 3433, SC1/series 230, Petition of Henry Remmington

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against the statue of Daniel Webster &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005530"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005530&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: New Bedford &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac Stearns, Mansfield &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Remmington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maryanne Remington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph R. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Luce&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Nobb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Alexander Ophtnne?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Harbal Clark?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David W. Ruggles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Raymond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anthony Jourdain&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Dickson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Briggs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Richards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah B. Sanderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catherine Sanderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hester Wigins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Tredwell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Susan Taper?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret Fletcher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Mason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Fletcher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Giles Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John York&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Carter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Goerge Canada&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Nelson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Webb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Douglass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Green&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Freedom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Julia Richard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josephine Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Duncan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Osborn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miguel Fortes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[George Tapcecio?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Thomass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House and laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 80 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 52 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [males of color], [females of color] &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;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: remonstrate, remonstrance, state treasurystate house, removal from capitol, in front of the court house and surround it with chairs, [Revelation of Sins?] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1853, Docket 3433 &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;