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Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956471

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: New Bedford

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Sampson Perkins, Bristol; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. John Bailey
2. Dudley Davenport
3. William Durfee
4. Nathan Johnson
5. Ezra R. Johnson

Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-26,1842-01-27

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 26, 1842 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 27, 1842 and concurred

Total signatures: 93

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 93

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Abolitionist wafers

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153

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.