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Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029596

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. William Whiting
2. Nathan S. Hosmer
3. Hannah Whiting
4. Louisa Whiting
5. Harriet Wheeler
6. Amos Bronson Alcott
7. Samuel Barrett
8. Abby Alcott
9. Prudence Ward
10. Lidian Emerson
11. John Thoreau
12. Sophia Thoreau
13. Cynthia Thoreau
14. Helen Thoreau
15. Susan Barrett

Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 92

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Female signatures: 50

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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 1847, Docket 1891

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.