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Petition subject: Against the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029797

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Weymouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Abner Holbrook, Norfolk; joint special committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Jeremiah Gove
2. Josiah Litchfield
3. Samuel Curtis

Actions taken on dates: 1858-03-09,1858-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 9, 1858 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 10, 1858 and laid on the table

Total signatures: 214

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 214

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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 1858, laid on the table

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.