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Petition subject: Against the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858485

Date of creation: 1855-02

Petition location: Brighton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel Martin, Brighton; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Edward Sparhawk
2. Isaac G. Braman
3. William R. Champney

Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-02,1855-03-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 105

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 105

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["legal voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.