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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858491

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Haverhill

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Simonds, Haverhill; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Brainard
2. James Palmer
3. James M. Goodrich

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-15,1855-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 349

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 313

Other male signatures: 36

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, non voters, [other males], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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 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.