DOI: 10.7910/dvn/npsec
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2122, SC1/series 230, Petition of Wendell Phillips

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Secession from the Union &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005504"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005504&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: Benjamin D. Peck, Mendon and Blackstone; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Augustine C. Taft&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John M. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelius Bramhall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry C. Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.W. Brown [William Wells Brown?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parker Pillsbury&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Watson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hervey E. Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann G. Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Frances Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac H. Snowden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Snowden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen E. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catherine Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Tappan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thankful Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1848-03-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on March 16, 1848 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 161 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 89 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 45 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [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;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: Abolitionist wafers &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2122 &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;