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Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858218

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Fairhaven

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Captain John Bunker, Fairhaven, Ms.; Pliny Merrick, Worcester

Selected signatures:

1. Ezra Spooner
2. Sarah Lawton
3. Lucy Dexter
4. Nathaniel Hathaway

Total signatures: 26

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14

Female signatures: 12

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], ["other persons"]

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: Note on back

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 13056

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.