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Petition subject: Against the gag rule

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956358

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Craige, Wrentham

Selected signatures:

1. William S. Bennett
2. Harvey Reed
3. Leonidas Cowell

Total signatures: 86

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: [1840 representative]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 788

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.