DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ttlub
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1853, Docket 13837, SC1/series 231, Petition of Jonas W. Clark

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Military companies &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381179"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381179&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &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: John Prince, Essex; committee on militia &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William J. Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Fatal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John V. de Grasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph B. Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William R. Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron L. Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Lewis Gaul?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Hammond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles P. Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Drew Curtis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederick Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Harvey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter F. Gill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas G. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nelson Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert A. Shepard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.M. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[I.A. Decatur?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Sterling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Thomas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Kelly&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;D. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Talbert&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry F. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph F. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Harris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph M. Gillmore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Dean&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Ruhler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dudley Tidd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederick F. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;F.B. Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Turpin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A.S. Cassey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;T.W. Steamburg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles E. Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simeon J.P. Wheatland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Farnum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harmon Sadler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Black&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E. Gaul&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E. Saunders&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;O. Minot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Morton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1853-02-16,1853-02-17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1853 and referred to the committee on militia and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 17, 1853 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 68 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 68 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males 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;: Manuscript &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: Includes note asking for a hearing with Robert Morris as attorney and M.D. next to de Grasse signature &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1853, Docket 13837 &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;