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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029541

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Ipswich

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Luther Moody, Rowley; committee on petitions of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. Dan Weed
2. William H. Graves
3. Josiah Caldwell
4. James Caldwell

Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-27,1843-01-28

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 27, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 28, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 26

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, inhabitants, ["others"]

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: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1289

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.