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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 18373, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin Hawkes

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1855, Docket 18373, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin Hawkes
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5VU6R
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858563

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Templeton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frederick Parker, Templeton; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

  1. Benjamin Hawkes
  2. John W. Work
  3. Abiah Merritt

Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-07,1855-03-08

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 7, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 8, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 85

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
concurred
received
received
referred
sent
Manuscript
Frederick Parker, Templeton; committee on federal relations
Abiah Merritt
Benjamin Hawkes
John W. Work
legal voters
No
85
85