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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857958

Date of creation: 1838-12-10

Petition location: Andover

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas C. Foster, Andover; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Timothy Foster
2. George Foster
3. James Smith

Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-16,1839-01-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1839 and concurred

Total signatures: 276

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 276

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: male inhabitants

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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.