DOI: 10.7910/dvn/qzxfy
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10544, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: For actions against the foreign slave trade and American Colonization Society &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11149105"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11149105&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: George Bradburn, Nantucket; committee on a petition of Henry Edwards and others &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos A. Phelps&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles P. Bosson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Philbrick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John E. Fuller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roswell Goss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel E. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph H. Eayrs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Cushing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Hatch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Enoch Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Knapp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Michael Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Rogers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;T.W. Durant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliphalet Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Frost&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clement Drew&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Adams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Allen Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Eli&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Dickinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Roswell Goss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Hart&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Johnson Davie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prescott Dickinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Augustus&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Barry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rufus Brooks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Mirick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Gordon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Micajah Wood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joel W. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Tolliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Brooke&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Fatal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon R. Alexander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Ricker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Cutler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Woodland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Waterhouse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Keith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Black&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Jasper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Solomon R. Alexander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;C.R. Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Luther Sanderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warren Ellis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Cushing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Perez Gill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Perry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Orin Carpenter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Guild&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Searles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Bacon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ambrose Kingman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Sanborn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Perkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Luther Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucy Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Luther Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Bancroft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rufus Damon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Damon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Damon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Bryant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Augusta Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Asa Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Esther Tayler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Frost&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Putman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gilman Kingman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Pratt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Young&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Wakefield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Richardson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Carter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reuben Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charlotte Richardson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gilman Gleaser&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Temple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Esther E. French&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy A. Gleason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah G. Temple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emeline A. Pratt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Almira Baldwin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah D. Coggin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Baldwin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Fowle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silas Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hiram Sweetser&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Albert Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Sanborn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Galagher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucinda Pratt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Melisent Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matilda Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1839-02-08,1839-02-09 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1839 and referred to the committee on a petition of Henry Edwards and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1839 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 229 &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): 162 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 41 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [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;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;Additional archivist notes: Reverend, foreign slave trade, great atrocities than at any former period, Americans and American capital are very extensively embarked in it, government of the United States, treaty with Great Britain and other powers, mutual right of search, vessels, slaver, escape detection by running up the American flag, trade can never be entirely abolished until the market for slaves is abolished by the universal and entire abolition of slavery itself, commerce, natural productions of Africa, Liberian Colonies, actual participants in it, resolve, mutual right of searching slave vessels, justice, humanity, president, American Colonization Society, protracting the existence of slavery and at the same time affording increased facilities to the trade to foster and extend it, [includes notes on back, George Baldwin, possibly on music?] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10544 &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;