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Petition subject: For the removal of the statue of Daniel Webster

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858624

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel H. Whiting, Plymouth; committee on the state house

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. William Boyce Jr.
3. William Lloyd Garrison
4. Charles W. Eldridge
5. James Redpath
6. Robert F. Wallcut
7. William C. Nell
8. Hannah B. Emerson
9. Helen E. Garrison
10. Martha B. Goodrich
11. Abigail Kent
12. Rachel Babcock
13. Hannah Tufts
14. Wendell P. Garrison
15. Charles L. Mitchell
16. Charles K. Whipple
17. Robert R. Crosby
18. Edmund Jackson
19. Austin Bearse
20. Charles H. Estabrook
21. Henry J. Prentiss
22. John T. Sargent
23. James B. Yerrinton
24. William Lloyd Garrison Jr.
25. John P. Jewett
26. George T. Garrison
27. George H. Hoyt
28. John B. Bailey
29. Charles W. Slack
30. Ignatius Sargent
31. John S. Rock
32. John A. Grimes
33. Thomas B. Rice
34. Thomas H. Hinckley
35. Adams Twitchell

Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-23,1860-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 23, 1860 and referred to the committee on the state house and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 24, 1860 and concurred

Total signatures: 123

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 89

Female signatures: 21

Other male signatures: 5

Unidentified signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, non-voters, [females], [other males], [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Some of the right hand side sections are legal voters; two signatures crossed out with the note "signature above"

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw

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.