Samuel Jackson Petitioner

• Place: Crumpsall,Salford
• Role: Demonstrator,Injured
• Occupation: Dyer

Whilst walking past Oldham Street, Manchester with bother and sister-in-law, received wound in knee from fired musket ball, taken to infirmary.

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A Petition of Samuel Jackson of Salford House of Commons,Votes and Proceedings,15th May 1821

(No. 625)

A Petition of Samuel Jackson, of Salford, in the County of Lancaster, was presented,and read;setting forth, That on the 16th of August, 1819, the day on which a Public Meeting was held in Manchester, for the purpose of petitioning the House for a redress of grievances, the Petitioner,who had been the whole day following his occupation as a dyer, was, on the evening of the said day, passing along Oldham Street, in Manchester, about the hour of six o’clock, in company with his brother-in-law and his sister-in-law; several soldiers fired their muskets, a ball from one of which entered the knee of the Petitioner;at the time the Petitioner received the wound he saw no disturbance;a number of people were passing peaceably along the street at the time; the Petitioner was immediately carried to the Infirmary, and before nine o’clock the same night, the leg of the Petitioner was amputated; the Petitioner lay in the Infirmary fourteen weeks, and is yet an out-patient of that Institution, the Petitioner never having perfectly recovered;the Petitioner has never been able to work since his irreparable misfortune;the Petitioner humbly prays, That the House would be pleased to institute an inquiry into the transactions which took place at Manchester on the 16th of August, 1819, relative to the aforesaid Meeting.

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