ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Arguing for the right to petition and protesting the existence of slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456126

Date of creation: 1837-02-21

Petition location: Hanover

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Reverend Abel G. Duncan, Hanover; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. J.M. Wilder
2. Alexander Wood
3. Rufus Bates

Legislative action: Referred to the committee on that subject

Total signatures: 27

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1837, c.75, passed April 12, 1837

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.