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Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858071

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: South Hadley

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Spencer Moody, South Hadley

Selected signatures:

1. Pliny Moody
2. Henry Ripley
3. Josiah Snow

Total signatures: 42

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Pliny discovered the first dinosaur tracks in North America while plowing?

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525

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.