DOI: 10.7910/dvn/tvzdh
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1230A, SC1/series 230, Petition of John T. Hilton

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against railroad discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029523"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029523&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 Francis Adams, Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eunice R. Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Amos&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Ames&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis P. Clary&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Scarlett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas P. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary P. White&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Riley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Carpenter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon Guess&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvia Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Ann Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Penelope Alvis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary A. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lunsford Lane&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Ceasar&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth P. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Snowden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Vose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phebe Redden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Saunders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelia Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 378 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Laid on the table &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 145 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 156 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 77 &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;: Printed &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: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A &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;