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Petition subject: School discrimination

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670498

Date of creation: 1845-01-24

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Wood, Nantucket; committee on education

Selected signatures:

1. Peter Macy
2. Gilbert Coffin
3. Mary Ann Miller

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-29,1845-01-30

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1845 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 30, 1845 and concurred

Total signatures: 235

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 137

Female signatures: 80

Unidentified signatures: 18

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: To aid the petition of Edward Pompey

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.214, passed March 25, 1845

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.