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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry Safford

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry Safford
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BXRQ6
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

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:11857941

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

  1. Henry Safford
  2. Timothy Gilbert
  3. Jacob Johnson
  4. David Foster
  5. Seth B. Poole

Total signatures: 34

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 34

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
George Bradburn, Nantucket
David Foster
Henry Safford
Jacob Johnson
Seth B. Poole
Timothy Gilbert
citizens
No
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