House Unpassed Legislation 1787, Docket 2358, SC1/series 230, Petition of Samuel Stevens

<p>Petition subject: Support for transportation to Africa </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935255">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935255</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1787-01-04 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Stevens</li><li>Brister Slanzer</li><li>Lanchester Hill</li><li>Prince Hall</li><li>Boston Smith</li><li>Ceser Spear</li><li>Prince Rand</li><li>Prince Gray</li><li>Samuel Beene</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: To lie </p> <p>Total signatures: 80 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: To lie </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 80 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a number of African blacks, [males of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: climate, lands, settlement, civil society, political constitution, religious society, Christian church, pastors, bishops, voyage, utensils, houses, mills, families, collection, congregations, [needs conservation] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1787, Docket 2358 </p> <p>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.</p>