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Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956446

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Brewster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin Paine, Brewster; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Robert R. Crosby
2. William Clark
3. Melinda Freeman

Total signatures: 53

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33

Female signatures: 21

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, females

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153

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.