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House Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 963, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Bassett

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 963, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Bassett
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5D5Z5
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida as a slave state

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956419

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Lynn

Selected signatures:

  1. William Bassett
  2. William D. Thompson
  3. Henry Newhall

Total signatures: 372

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 372

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: 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 1841, Docket 963

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
George Hood, Lynn
Henry Newhall
William Bassett
William D. Thompson
inhabitants
others
No
372
372