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Petition subject: Support for the Mexican War

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029613

Date of creation: 1847-01-12

Petition location: Westfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hiram A. Beebe, Westfield; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Homer Holland
2. George Sackett
3. Orville Root

Actions taken on dates: 1847-01-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1847 and referred to the committee on that subject

Total signatures: 131

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 131

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned

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 1847, Docket 2017

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.