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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935297

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

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

Selected signatures:

1. Sarah Chapman
2. Mary G. Chapman
3. Olive Twombley
4. Louisa Loring
5. Eliza F. Meriam
6. Elizabeth Peabody
7. Harriet G. Hunt
8. Eliza S. Campbell
9. Lavinia Hilton
10. Phebe Ball
11. Mary C. Blanchard
12. Henrietta Sargent
13. Catharine Sargent
14. Caroline Weston
15. Maria Weston Chapman
16. Mary A.W. Johnson
17. Anna R. Southwick
18. Anne Warren Weston
19. Thankful Southwick
20. Zilpha W. Harlow
21. Susan Paul
22. Catherine Paul
23. Eunice R. Davis
24. Lavinia Hilton

Total signatures: 456

Female signatures: 456

Female only signatures: Yes

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1841, Docket 998

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.