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Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956460

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William B. Duggan, Quincy

Selected signatures:

1. William Harlow
2. Otis G. Cheever
3. Susan Hawes

Total signatures: 130

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69

Female signatures: 56

Unidentified signatures: 5

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Abolitionist wafers

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153

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.