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Petition subject: Military companies

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381177

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel E. Sewall, Middlesex; Francis Brinley, Suffolk; committee on military

Selected signatures:

1. John P. Coburn
2. Jonas W. Clark
3. Robert Morris
4. Lewis Hayden
5. James H. Gayter
6. Peter F. Gill
7. Agustus Estrada
8. William Brown
9. John Williams
10. John Johnson
11. George Paul
12. Samuel Fawler Jr.
13. Jacob Sampson
14. Henry Davis
15. Thomas P. Smith
16. Richard Williams
17. James Henry
18. Robert Johnson
19. [C.M. Alexander Lewis?]
20. Robert A. Shepard
21. Coffin Pitts
22. Lemuel Burr
23. Emiliano F.B. Mundrucu
24. Robert Jones
25. Samuel Wilson
26. W.H. Gray
27. Lewis Robins
28. Samuel Thompson
29. James Gayter
30. Henry Hall
31. Jeremiah Harvey
32. Marcus Huntley
33. Charles P. Morris
34. Joseph B. Morris
35. George W. Morris
36. William R. Morris
37. [Simon Wheatland?]
38. Thomas Drew
39. Joseph Curtis
40. Joseph Chew
41. Aaron Morris
42. Joel Lewis
43. Charles Lenox Remond
44. John Remond
45. Patrick H. Allen
46. Chamber Weeks
47. Peter Randolph
48. J.H. Sterling
49. [William Preston?]
50. H.W. Simmons
51. M. Charles Davis
52. Rich Chapman
53. Isaac Snowden
54. Joseph H. Turpin
55. John Harris
56. James Turner
57. Nester P. Freeman
58. George W. Martin
59. Robert C. Davis
60. William D. Curtis
61. Joseph Curtis
62. James Hazard
63. J.R. Martin

Actions taken on dates: 1852-04-03,1852-04-05

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 3, 1852 and referred to the committee on military and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 5, 1852 and concurred

Total signatures: 66

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

Males of color signatures: 66

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: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1852, Docket 13547

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.