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Petition subject: Imprisonment of Massachusetts citizens in other states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208718

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. John Pierpont
2. John Greenleaf Whittier
3. Ellis Gray Loring
4. Nathaniel Colver
5. Francis Jackson
6. Samuel Brimblecom

Total signatures: 6

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Jonathan Walker, Harwich, Pensacola, Florida, jail, prison, imprisonment, abduction of six coloured men claimed to be slaves, poverty, distance, unconstitutional and void, danger of being branded, set in the pillory, imprisoned for many years, fines, defense, protection of this child of Massachusetts who has fallen among those who will disregard, it is feared, the claims of humanity and justice and the guaranties of the constitution, counsel, relief, injured citizen

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, October 2, 1844, Case of Jonathan Walker

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.