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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670540

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: [Barker Burnell, Nantucket?]

Selected signatures:

1. Alexander Robinson
2. William C. Gifford
3. Anna Gardner
4. Sarah G. Huntington
5. Mary Coffin

Actions taken on dates: 1838-01-13,1838-01-15

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 13, 1838 and referred to the committee on the abolition of slavery and received in the House on January 15, 1838 and concurred

Total signatures: 52

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 9

Female signatures: 43

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.34, passed March 16, 1838

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.