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Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857891

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Fall River

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Iram Smith, Fall River

Selected signatures:

1. Abraham Bowen
2. Samuel Chase
3. Gilbert H. Durfee

Total signatures: 200

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 200

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.