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Petition subject: Arguing for the right to petition and protesting the existence of slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456168

Date of creation: 1837-02-14

Petition location: Roxbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel G. Goodrich, Roxbury; P. West, [Parsons West, Hadley?]

Selected signatures:

1. John S.C. Abbott
2. Thomas W. Durant
3. Thomas M. Wentworth
4. Josiah H. Moore

Total signatures: 322

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 322

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Reverend John S.C. Abbott

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1837, c.75, passed April 12, 1837

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.