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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857935

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Berlin

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jonathan D. Meriam, Berlin; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Mary Lamson
2. Harriet Rice
3. Sally Sawyer

Actions taken on dates: 1839-02-20,1839-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1839 and concurred

Total signatures: 48

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

Female signatures: 48

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], ["women"]

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.