DOI: 10.7910/dvn/fdfex
title: Passed Acts; St. 1843, c.5, SC1/series 229, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation law &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670411"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670411&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; several names from a committee; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis George Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Minot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hervey E. Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel E. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel P. Bishop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Battiste&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah P. Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lenox Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Lenox Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W.F. Mellen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-11,1843-01-13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 11, 1843 and referred to a committee and received in the Senate on January 13, 1843 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 69 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 54 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 2 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [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: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1843, c.5, passed February 25, 1843 &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;