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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666566

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Oliver Warner, Hampshire; next general court

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Wendell Phillips
4. Robert F. Wallcut
5. Edmund Jackson
6. Theodore Parker
7. Thomas J. Hunt
8. William S. George
9. Charles K. Whipple
10. Austin Bearse
11. Charles F. Hovey
12. Elbridge Sprague
13. William C. Nell
14. James B. Yerrinton
15. James M.W. Yerrinton
16. George A. Noyes
17. James N. Buffum
18. John Stanton Baldwin
19. Amos Bronson Alcott
20. Daniel Thaxter
21. William Wells Brown
22. Coffin Pitts
23. Daniel F. Child
24. Charles W. Slack
25. Jonas W. Clark
26. John P. Coburn
27. Samuel May Jr.
28. Henry J. Prentiss
29. Charles Lenox Remond
30. John M. Spear
31. William F. Channing
32. Ira Gray
33. Lewis Hayden
34. Leonard Grimes
35. Robert Roberts
36. Benjamin Weeden
37. John S. Rock
38. Isaac Bigelow

Actions taken on dates: 1856-05-06,1856-05-08

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 6, 1856 and referred to the next general court and sent for concurrence and received in the House on May 8, 1856 and concurred

Total signatures: 69

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: M.D. next to William F. Channing signature

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18532

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.