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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:10956438

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Leicester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Sargent, Leicester; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Austin Flint
2. John Nelson
3. Josiah Clarke Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1842-07-11

Legislative action: Received in the legislature on July 11, 1842 and referred to the committee on that subject

Total signatures: 117

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 88

Other male signatures: 29

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, legal voters, other persons, [other males]

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.