DOI: 10.7910/dvn/uopt1
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1230A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Francis Jackson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against railroad discrimination &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029510"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029510&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; joint committee; several names from a committee &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;Frederick S. Cabot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis George Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John G. King&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Minot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Rogers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William P. Atkinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hervey W. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William W. Marjoram&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;John Curtis Jr.&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;Charles Lenox Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah P. Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan H. Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Christopher Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W.F. Mellen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John L. Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline Weston&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 sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 13, 1843 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 71 &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): 52 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 3 &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: citizens, [females], [females of color], [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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A &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;