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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Margaret Fiske

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Margaret Fiske
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A22HC
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858126

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

  1. Margaret Fiske
  2. Sylvia Mann
  3. Lucy Whiting

Total signatures: 286

Female signatures: 286

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

Additional archivist notes: Needs conservation

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
Committee on slavery
Lucy Whiting
Margaret Fiske
Sylvia Mann
females
undersigned
women
Yes
286
286