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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858575

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston, Charlestown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John L. Swift, Boston; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. D.P. Butler
2. John C. Haynes
3. John D. Willard
4. Henry P. Trask
5. Lewis Hayden
6. Amos Redlon
7. James Johnson
8. Thomas N. Chase
9. Frederic H. Henshaw
10. Charles Fessenden
11. Henry Fleming
12. Ann Maria Henshaw
13. Elizabeth Hoyt

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 57

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 44

Female signatures: 5

Other male signatures: 4

Unidentified signatures: 4

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, others, [females], [other males], [males of color]

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: Includes one address; basing legislative information for next three petitions on the wrapper preceding them

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.