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House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Willis Fisher

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Willis Fisher
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6MLDQ
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956467

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Franklin

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel C. Allen, Northfield

Selected signatures:

  1. Willis Fisher
  2. Caroline Fisher
  3. Olive M. Wadsworth

Total signatures: 114

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 61

Female signatures: 53

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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 1842, Docket 1153

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
Samuel C. Allen, Northfield
Caroline Fisher
Olive M. Wadsworth
Willis Fisher
citizens
females
undersigned
not column separated
No
53
61
114