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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858564

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Needham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Lauren Kingsbury, Needham; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Brackett Lord
2. Warren Dewing
3. George K. Daniell

Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-09,1855-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 61

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 61

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: The petition handwriting appears to be William C. Nell's

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.