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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:11858062

Date of creation: 1838-12

Petition location: Scituate

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William James, Scituate; committee on domestic slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Hannah Turner
2. Janny Jacob
3. Ruth Cushing

Total signatures: 253

Female signatures: 253

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: women, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: [comparison of two Scituate texts]

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.