DOI: 10.7910/dvn/xukxw
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2552, SC1/series 230, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Secession from the Union &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029695"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029695&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: Albert Tolman, Worcester &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Palmer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ignatius Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Walcutt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann G. Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Craft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Box Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucy Stone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellen Craft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cummings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oscar T. Higgins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1850 and laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 126 &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): 85 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 13 &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: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["other persons"] &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: Fugitive slave names are in the "other" column &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2552 &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;