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Petition subject: Military companies

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381178

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward L. Keyes, Norfolk; committee on the militia

Selected signatures:

1. Curtis C. Nichols
2. D.S. King
3. Lemuel Burr
4. Hiram Mingo
5. Charles C. Clapp
6. Charles P. Morris
7. Joseph B. Morris
8. George W. Morris
9. W.B. Parsons
10. B.E. Murray
11. A.A. Childs
12. J.S. Potter
13. J.L. Swift
14. James B. Richards
15. W.S. Dannell
16. Hiram A. Emery
17. John Clough
18. Isaac Strickland
19. Lewis Hayden
20. F.C. Shepherd
21. F.N. Gleason
22. Joseph K. Hayes
23. Edward Johnson Jr.
24. Luther Paul Jr.
25. Henry Paul
26. George W. Stacy
27. William Richardson
28. George W. Pierce
29. Curtis C. Nichols
30. John M. Sewall
31. William Wilberforce Russell
32. Richard Howland
33. James Hazard Jr.
34. William White
35. George Martin
36. Bailey Wardwell
37. Henry Stoddard
38. Henry M. Hall
39. William Gregory
40. Charles Bradley
41. George Collings
42. Richard Williams
43. Thomas Reed
44. Bela Hessey
45. John J. Fatal
46. John Oliver
47. Samuel Wilson
48. John P. Coburn
49. Henry Weeden
50. William B. Breed
51. John Johnson
52. Jeremiah Harvey
53. Robert Shepard
54. Joseph Scarlett
55. Aaron Gaul
56. Nathan Gaul
57. Robert Morris
58. John M. Lenox
59. Charles W. Calkins
60. Thomas Bird
61. [Joshua Penmmur?]
62. Phineas Howard
63. Edward Coddington
64. Amos C. Clapp
65. F.H. Sprague
66. Leonard Parks
67. S.F. Edwards
68. Lewis Thompson
69. Henry Doyle
70. Edward Jackson
71. Samuel Ford
72. Benjamin Harwood
73. Thomas J. Neal
74. Isaac Stafford
75. Simon Anderson
76. Joseph Hawkins
77. Peter F. Gill
78. Solomon Guess
79. William W. Brown [William Wells Brown?]
80. Edward Cassell
81. Frederick Howard
82. James Scott
83. Charles Abbot
84. Richard Williams
85. James Girrard
86. Simon Knowles
87. Arthur Scott
88. Augustus Estrada
89. Joseph Viger
90. Norris Fines
91. John Willard Jr.
92. James Johnson
93. George Washington
94. Joseph N. Butler
95. Robert Johnson
96. Richard F. Field

Actions taken on dates: 1852-03-24,1852-03-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 24, 1852 and referred to the committee on militia and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 24, 1852 and concurred

Total signatures: 137

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

Males of color signatures: 137

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: To abolish militia restrictions based on color

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1852, Docket 13568

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.