DOI: 10.7910/dvn/1xxp0
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10883, SC1/series 231, Petition of Elisha Huntington

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: To allow free colored foreigners to become United States citizens &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381147"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381147&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: Elisha Bartlett, Lowell; committee on slavery &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elisha Huntington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Wood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ambrose Charles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Tide&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abram French&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Blake&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis D. Boise&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James H. Rand&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silas Dean&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Prescott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Horace Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Wilder&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Blanchard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Wing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthias Parkhurst&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Richardson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ransom Reed&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ephraim Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Goodwin Wood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Royal Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Dana&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Tower&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Ferrin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rufus Russell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Goodhue&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Ward&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Butterfield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Lawrence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Upton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Hazelton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Farrington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Hutchinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rodney Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1841-01-15 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1841 and referred to the committee on slavery and received in the Senate in 1841 with resolution relative to naturalization laws &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 191 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, resolution &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 191 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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;: Printed &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: naturalization laws, citizenship &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10883 &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;