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House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2343, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jacob S. Howes

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2343, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jacob S. Howes
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AHQOD
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029677

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Dennis

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles White, Worcester; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

  1. Jacob S. Howes
  2. Edward Hall
  3. Betsey Stone

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 17, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 34

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 22

Female signatures: 11

Other male signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], ["other persons"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: 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 1849, Docket 2343

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
received
referred
Printed
Charles White, Worcester; committee on the judiciary
Betsey Stone
Edward Hall
Jacob S. Howes
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
others
column separated
No
11
22
1
34