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Petition subject: That any states in rebellion should give their solemn recognition of the equality of all men before the law

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018102

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis J. Baxter, Boston; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Lewis Hayden
2. David Pulsifer
3. J.A. Grimes
4. John Ruffin
5. James J. Gardner
6. Samuel A. Hancock
7. Peter B. Hicks
8. John B. Bailey
9. J.M. Shirman Jr.
10. Charles Green
11. Luke R. Lee
12. C. Colton
13. Thomas R. Appleton
14. T.R. Watson
15. Edward Ruhler
16. [F.R. Winter?]
17. Thomas Laccount
18. Samuel Hall Jr.
19. C.P. Wells
20. L.D. Johnson
21. Edward Davis
22. Albert Carter
23. D.H. Rogers
24. [H. Hamnon?]
25. T.E. Baker
26. Joshua Lippen
27. David Wilder Jr.
28. H. Oliver
29. Stephen B. Smith
30. Samuel C. Oliver
31. James F. Patterson
32. Albert L. Fernald
33. Henry J. Coolidge
34. George Barnard
35. H.G. Swain
36. L.B. Fifield
37. [Benjamin C. Dean?]
38. William F. Stoddard
39. John E. Gilman
40. William Wise
41. John Brown
42. Joseph F. Porter
43. John Duffy
44. George P. Clapp
45. John V. de Grasse
46. Fred H. Adams
47. Charles Thayer
48. W.E. Hadley
49. N.B. Gifford
50. Robert Morris
51. George Lee
52. James L. Shearman
53. [W.T. Coburn?]
54. Thomas J. Smith
55. William Gilbert
56. James Neal
57. James M. Titus
58. Frederic Johnson
59. Henry James
60. George P. Riley
61. John Brown
62. John Robertson
63. W.H. Aiken
64. J.H. Robertson
65. J.E. Duncan
66. P.B. Brigham
67. H.H. Leavitt
68. H.P. Caldwell
69. James Francis
70. H.H.G. Scott
71. William Graves
72. B. Hart
73. W.H. Washington
74. Benjamin Bond
75. Alfred Church
76. Edward Hopson
77. Charles W. Guess
78. Alexander Patterson
79. William Riley
80. John Thompson
81. H.B. Wood
82. E.P. Robinson
83. Benjamin C. Piper
84. W.W. Thayer
85. D.W. Ladd
86. Frank Thomas
87. James J. Monroe
88. Edward Strong
89. Nathaniel Jones
90. James Bates
91. Isaac Brooks
92. William Harris
93. George H. Quincy
94. D.O. Balcom
95. William Cline
96. William H. Porter
97. Fred K. Porter
98. G. Julian Harney
99. Nathaniel Moody
100. Horatio Godbold
101. William Bullock
102. Harrie A. Cushman
103. George Buckley
104. Samuel Jackson
105. John Deane
106. Alfonson Bowman
107. William Goodhue
108. Otis Chase
109. Joseph L. Barbadoes
110. George W. Sargent
111. Obed Goodspeed
112. George M. Staples
113. Charles E. Gleason
114. David Fletcher
115. James Tolman
116. William C. Nell
117. William Peabody
118. George Williams
119. Orlando Bowman
120. John Ridgway
121. Asa Morrill
122. John Eastman
123. George J. Bailey
124. Mark R. De Mortie
125. Charles L. Mitchell
126. Thomas Tucker
127. Edward Rolfe

Actions taken on dates: 1866-01-16,1866-01-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1866 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1866 and concurred

Total signatures: 216

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 216

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: includes Lewis Hayden's signature moved to center of petition, rights of human nature or of civil government, meeting held in the First Independent Baptist Church, [religious]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1866, indefinitely postponed

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.