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Petition subject: Monument to Crispus Attucks

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25500496

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Springfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William O. Armstrong, Boston; committee on expenditures

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Thomas
2. Edwin D. Metcalf
3. Samuel B. Spooner
4. Edwin Dwight
5. Elmer E. Lutz
6. Payton Washington
7. Jesse Washington

Actions taken on dates: 1887-01-26,1887-01-27

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1887 and referred to the committee on expenditures and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1887 and concurred

Total signatures: 62

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 62

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: memorial to Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Jonas Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick Carr, Boston Massacre, Revolutionary War, British soldiers, 1770, Granary Burial Ground, martyrs, American liberty, patriots

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1887, c.53, passed May 17, 1887

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.