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Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029691

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Abington

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Briggs Arnold, East Abington; Zenas Jenkins II, Abington; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Elbridge Sprague
2. Daniel Shaw
3. Rachel Shaw

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 238

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 123

Female signatures: 88

Other male signatures: 15

Unidentified signatures: 12

Female only signatures: No

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2343

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.