DOI: 10.7910/dvn/bp1du
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1861, referred to next General Court, SC1/series 230, Petition of Robert Morris

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Military companies &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018092"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018092&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: Marshall S. Underwood, Dennis; joint special committee on the governor's address &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron A. Bradley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Downing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel T. Birmingham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas P. Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John V. de Grasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Bolling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William D. Curtis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.J. Decoursey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.J. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jeremiah Harvey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.F.B. Mundrucu&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Bond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph N. Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuell Pride&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stephen Ray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.H. Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marion Jenkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;B.C. Gregory&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simpson H. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Johnston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James D. Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George L. Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;T.R. Watson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Storms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Atkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.W. Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Horace J. Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Redding&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Henry Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Baker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.B. Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.P. Miles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Moore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Long&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Moore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Pride&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Livingston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Weston Fisher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph N. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;G.W. Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John L. Marshall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Harvey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matthias H. Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.H. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank Watkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Shorter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1861-05-15,1861-05-15 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 15, 1861 and referred to the joint special committee on the governor's address and sent for concurrence and received in the House on May 15, 1861 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 72 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 72 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: That colored citizens may form military companies, includes M.D. next to John V. De Grasse signature &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1861, referred to next General Court &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;