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House Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Rufus P. Harvey

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 577, SC1/series 230, Petition of Rufus P. Harvey
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/64UYH
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Repeal of all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956326

Date of creation: 1839-03-14

Petition location: Bradford

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

  1. Rufus P. Harvey
  2. Charles Fairbanks
  3. Edwin Hopkinson

Total signatures: 46

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 46

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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 1839, Docket 577

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
Manuscript
George Bradburn, Nantucket
Charles Fairbanks
Edwin Hopkinson
Rufus P. Harvey
citizens
legal voters
No
46
46
 
Date 1839-03-14