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Petition subject: Against the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029762

Date of creation: 1858-01-15

Petition location: Leicester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Caleb Cushing, Newburyport; joint special committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Barnes
2. Richard Bowditch
3. Samuel Firth

Actions taken on dates: 1858-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 24, 1858 and concurred

Total signatures: 71

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 71

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: residents, voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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 1858, laid on the table

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.