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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858521

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Leicester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John D. Cogswell, Leicester; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. John Nelson
2. Edward Flint
3. Dwight Bisco

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-28

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 28, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations

Total signatures: 88

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 79

Other male signatures: 9

Female only signatures: No

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

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: 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.