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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857992

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Methuen

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joshua Buswell, Methuen; committee on domestic slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Thaxter
2. Eliza Davis
3. Benjamin Wilson

Total signatures: 182

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 94

Female signatures: 88

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, males, females

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 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.