ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Gag rule

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456125

Date of creation: 1837-02-13

Petition location: Gardner

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Captain Martin Dunster, Gardner

Selected signatures:

1. Theodore P. Wood
2. Francis Richardson
3. Newton Brooks

Total signatures: 107

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 107

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["inhabitants"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Includes note

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1837, c.75, passed April 12, 1837

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.