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Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857996

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Middleton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles A. Andrew, Salem

Selected signatures:

1. David Stiles
2. Samuel Demsey
3. Joseph W. Batchelder

Total signatures: 32

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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 1839, Docket 10525

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.