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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:11029529

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Loring Moody, Harwich

Selected signatures:

1. Cyrus Peirce
2. Nathaniel Barney
3. Ebenezer W. Allen
4. Joseph Mitchell
5. Robert Gardner
6. Jane Hewes
7. Anna Gardner
8. Andrew Macy
9. Isaac Austin
10. Absalom F. Boston
11. David Joy
12. Edward J. Pompey
13. Lydia Mitchell
14. Wesley Berry

Legislative action: Laid on the table

Total signatures: 98

Legislative action summary: Laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 49

Female signatures: 26

Unidentified signatures: 23

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"], ["inhabitants"]

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 1843, Docket 1286

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.