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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and pass several resolutions against slavery

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857990

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Marshfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Ford Jr., Marshfield; special committee on slavery and the slave trade; committee on a memorial of Henry Edwards and others

Selected signatures:

1. Elizabeth Lewis
2. Nancy Baker
3. Sarah G. Little

Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-14,1839-01-15

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1839 and concurred

Total signatures: 167

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

Female signatures: 167

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: Message to women on back

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.