ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956450

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Abington

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Drew, Kingston

Selected signatures:

1. Micah Pool
2. John Giles
3. David Cushing

Total signatures: 180

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 156

Female signatures: 13

Unidentified signatures: 11

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

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.