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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857970

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Amherst

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Dickinson, Amherst [Edward Dickinson, Amherst or Oliver Dickinson II, Amherst]; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Tammy E. Dickinson
2. Hannah Loomis
3. Lydia Roberts

Total signatures: 138

Female signatures: 138

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: The bottom section appears to be the same signatures as the top, which would make the number of signatures 90

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525

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.