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House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 788, SC1/series 230, Petition of Orlando Tenney

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 788, SC1/series 230, Petition of Orlando Tenney
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/980DA
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Against the gag rule

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956372

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Georgetown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Lynn

Selected signatures:

  1. Orlando Tenney
  2. Moses Carter
  3. Robert Boyes

Total signatures: 78

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 78

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Potentially more names of representatives on the front

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 788

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
George Hood, Lynn
Moses Carter
Orlando Tenney
Robert Boyes
inhabitants
others
No
78
78