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Petition subject: Railroad discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029520

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Prince, Essex

Selected signatures:

1. Henry W. Williams
2. William C. Nell
3. Joseph Southwick
4. Hervey E. Weston
5. Frederick S. Cabot
6. William Lloyd Garrison
7. Wendell Phillips
8. Benjamin F. Roberts
9. Hannah S. Adams
10. Charles K. Whipple
11. Eunice R. Davis
12. Anna R. Southwick
13. Maria Weston Chapman
14. Anne Warren Weston
15. Francis Jackson
16. John Greenleaf Whittier
17. Mary Y.C. Greeley
18. George W.F. Mellen
19. Samuel Philbrick

Legislative action: Laid on the table

Total signatures: 46

Legislative action summary: Laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33

Female signatures: 10

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: To reconsider the vote on the bill in relation to passengers on railroads

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.