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Petition subject: Asking for action on the laws before the legislature relative to free people of color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956428

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the petition of Stephn Thayer

Selected signatures:

1. Charles T. Torrey
2. Jehiel Chapell Beman
3. J. Wesley Griswold
4. Abel Stevens
5. William C. Brown
6. Franklin Rand
7. James Porter
8. Amos A. Phelps

Actions taken on dates: 1841-01-14,1841-02-19

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 14, 1841 and laid on the table and received in the Senate on February 19, 1841 and referred to the committee on the petition of Stephen Thayer

Total signatures: 18

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 18

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Cambridgeport, Dorchester

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1841, Docket 998

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.