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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:11858061

Date of creation: 1838-11

Petition location: Scituate

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William James, Scituate; committee on domestic slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel J. May
2. Anson Robbins
3. Timothy Foster

Total signatures: 86

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 86

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["men"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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.