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Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029517

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Upton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Legg, Upton; committee on that subject; committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. Hosea Trumbull
2. Hillel Baker
3. Phebe Baker

Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-17,1843-01-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 17, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petitions of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 116

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Female signatures: 59

Other male signatures: 4

Unidentified signatures: 11

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, voters, [females], [minors], ["others"], ["legal voters"]

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: Separated into "citizens" and "voters," pasted with another petition

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1230A

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.