DOI: 10.7910/dvn/b7g3t
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3139, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonas W. Clark

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: School discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029724"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029724&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1851-02 &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: William Schouler, Boston; committee on education &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Harvey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lawson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Rose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Sampson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William James Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ottawa West&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Stewart&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John H. Sterling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W.B. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patrick H. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter M. Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Cummings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph N. Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas G. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter F. Gill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.H. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leonard A. Grimes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lemuel Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-08,1851-03-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1851 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 42 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 42 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: constituting a portion of the citizens of Boston, being deprived of the advantages of Common School Privileges, solely on account of complexion, [males of color], ["legal voters"], ["colored men and their families"] &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: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Includes addresses; men signed for families, representing 186 peoples &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3139 &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;