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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857895

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Foxborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Silas Ripley, Foxborough; committee on domestic slavery

Selected signatures:

1. James Capen
2. Joseph Shepard
3. Ephraim Grover

Total signatures: 45

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 45

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants

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: 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.