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House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathan Heaton

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathan Heaton
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AVCLT
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956395

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Franklin

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

  1. Nathan Heaton
  2. Anna Whiting
  3. Nancy Frost

Total signatures: 104

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 37

Female signatures: 67

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"]

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 1840, Docket 800

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
George Bradburn, Nantucket
Anna Whiting
Nancy Frost
Nathan Heaton
females
inhabitants
others
column separated
No
67
37
104