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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029525

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Francis Adams, Boston

Selected signatures:

1. John T. Hilton
2. Eunice R. Davis
3. Robert Johnson
4. Clarissa S. Johnson
5. Martha Ames
6. Jonas W. Clark
7. John P. Coburn
8. Coffin Pitts
9. George Washington
10. Lunsford Lane
11. Robert Roberts
12. Hannibal Lewis
13. William Humphrey Brown
14. Mary A. Barbadoes
15. Sarah Burr
16. Samuel Snowden
17. Charles A. Snowden
18. Robert Morris
19. Henry Weeden

Legislative action: Laid on the table

Total signatures: 340

Legislative action summary: Laid on the table

Females of color signatures: 129

Males of color signatures: 154

Unidentified signatures: 57

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [males of color], [females of color]

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 1843, Docket 1286

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.