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Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950412

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Willard P. Phillips, Salem

Selected signatures:

1. John B. Bailey
2. Michael Dugan
3. James H. Wilson
4. James L. Bailey
5. Charles Ripley
6. William Hare
7. Wendell T. Coburn
8. Benjamin F. Roberts
9. Andrew Reynolds
10. J.J. Moore
11. William W. Brown [William Wells Brown?]
12. J.V. Thompson
13. Joseph Harris
14. S.H. Lewis
15. Frank E. Lee
16. Peter F. Gill
17. Horace J. Gray
18. William N. Brown
19. Edward H. Gray
20. Samuel A. Hancock
21. C.D. Thomas
22. George J. Hinds
23. John H. Rohan
24. Thomas Mitchell
25. John Ahearn
26. Benjamin L. Pettingill
27. Daniel J. Daly
28. James McLaughlin
29. William T. Thompson

Actions taken on dates: 1873-03-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 17, 1873 and placed on file

Total signatures: 58

Legislative action summary: Received, placed on file

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: To rescind and annul the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions

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.