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Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws and against railroad discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029514

Date of creation: 1843-01

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Wheeler, Watertown

Selected signatures:

1. G.W. Simmons
2. William A. White

Total signatures: 2

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: A meeting of delegates from the towns of Middlesex, Latimer Convention, ["the officers of a meeting of the citizens of Middlesex County"]

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 1843, Docket 1230A

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.