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Petition subject: Against railroad discrimination with focus on white passengers

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029518

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Anthony Wright, Concord; committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. Josiah Bartlett
2. John Thoreau
3. Barzillai Frost
4. Francis Bigelow
5. Caroline Hoar
6. Mercy Vose
7. Abby Alcott
8. Cynthia Thoreau
9. Prudence Ward
10. Ellen Garrison
11. Susan Barrett
12. Mary Blanchard
13. Maria Thoreau
14. Jane Thoreau
15. Helen Thoreau
16. Anne Whiting

Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-19,1843-01-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 19, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 146

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 19

Female signatures: 102

Unidentified signatures: 25

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], ["others"], ["inhabitants"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Includes section of printed note to petitioners

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A

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.