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Petition subject: Protesting illegal detentions of people in territories and slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670573

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. William L. Mather
2. Josiah Bartlett
3. Barzillai Frost
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Ruth Emerson
6. Sophia Thoreau
7. Jane Thoreau
8. Maria Thoreau
9. Elizabeth Shattuck
10. Helen Thoreau

Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-11,1845-03-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on March 6, 1845 and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas

Total signatures: 65

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 16

Female signatures: 39

Unidentified signatures: 10

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1845, c.39, passed February 22, 1845

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.