DOI: 10.7910/dvn/53lyx
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3139, SC1/series 230, Petition of Dr. Walter Channing

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: School discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029725"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029725&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1850-06 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dr. Walter Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Canfield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Palmer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Sumner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Walter Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Franklin Rand&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Light&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George C. Rand&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Andrew Cushing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesse Peck&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis George Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theodore Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Philbrick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Gilmore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Gilmore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John G. Palfrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Bosworth&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel P. Cheever&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James N. Buffum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caleb Easton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 137 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 137 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males 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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Includes occupations and towns next to names including Boston, Malden, Roxbury, Dedham, Brookline, Dorchester, Newton, Salem, Stoughton, Hanover, Warren, Braintree, Charlestown, Bridgewater, Plympton, Kingston, Hanson, Abington, East Bridgewater, South Hingham, Dennis, Harwich, Plymouth, Raynham, Holliston, Cambridge, Cambridgeport, Lynn, Lowell, North Bridgewater; signature numbers different from front of petition &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139 &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;