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Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858116

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: North Wilbraham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse W. Rice, Wilbraham; joint select committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. L.S. Virgin
2. H.M. Thompson
3. B. Durant

Total signatures: 111

Female signatures: 111

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: ladies, [females]

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: 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.