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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858059

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Salem

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles A. Andrew, Salem

Selected signatures:

1. Ichabod Tucker
2. S.C. Phillips
3. Brown Emerson
4. William B. Dodge

Actions taken on dates: 1839-02-11,1839-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1839 and concurred

Total signatures: 192

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 192

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: freeholders, other inhabitants, ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Hair embedded in wax

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.