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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Olive S. Sturtevant

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Olive S. Sturtevant
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AWGTB
 
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. and pass several resolutions against slavery

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858047

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Plympton

Selected signatures:

  1. Olive S. Sturtevant
  2. Sarah F. Bradford
  3. Maria Leach

Total signatures: 61

Female signatures: 61

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: women, [females], [minors]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Message to women on back

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
Maria Leach
Olive S. Sturtevant
Sarah F. Bradford
females
minors
women
Yes
61
61