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Petition subject: Against aid for the Mexican War

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029611

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph Bell, Boston; Boston Dispensary, 109 Washington St.

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel May
2. Theodore Parker
3. Eliza H. Taft
4. Charles K. Whipple
5. James B. Yerrinton
6. Ambrose Wellington
7. John C. Dodge
8. Ignatius Sargent
9. Robert F. Wallcut
10. George W.F. Mellen
11. Ira Gray
12. Charles W. Spear
13. Mary G. Chapman
14. Francis Jackson
15. Henry I. Bowditch
16. William Lloyd Garrison
17. Wendell Phillips
18. Maria Weston Chapman

Actions taken on dates: 1847-01-25

Legislative action: Laid on the table on January 25, 1847

Total signatures: 193

Legislative action summary: Laid on table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 101

Female signatures: 26

Unidentified signatures: 66

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: men, women, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not 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: House Unpassed 1847, Docket 2017

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.