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Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858430

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: North Bridgewater

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Asahel Hathaway, Bridgewater

Selected signatures:

1. Frederick Howard
2. Thomas Lothrop
3. John Day

Total signatures: 114

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 84

Female signatures: 4

Other male signatures: 17

Unidentified signatures: 9

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["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

Additional archivist notes: Sent by or to "Howard" but several Howards listed, so not sure on lead petitioner's name

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162

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.