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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857985

Date of creation: 1839-01-22

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Lynn; committee on domestic slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Gamaliel W. Oliver
2. Benjamin Johnson
3. James N. Buffum

Total signatures: 620

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 620

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["legal voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: In 1814, William Lloyd Garrison was apprenticed to Gamaliel W. Oliver, a shoemaker

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.