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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858605

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Townsend

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alanson Hawley, Springfield; committee on federal relations; Mr. John Clement, Townsend, Mass.; "return it before Thanksgiving to A.W. Weston, 21 Cornhill, Boston"

Selected signatures:

1. Harriet H. Hardy
2. Harriet Louisa Wilder
3. Silvia Spaulding

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-10,1855-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 10, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1855 and concurred.

Total signatures: 72

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Female signatures: 72

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: women, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Large gap before signatures; Interesting note: "return it before Thanksgiving to A.W. Weston, 21 Cornhill, Boston" [Anne Warren Weston]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.