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Petition subject: Against the gag rule and concerning the Latimer petitions

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858200

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Francis Adams, Boston; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. William B. Earle
2. John M. Spear
3. Hebron Vincent
4. Amos B. Merrill
5. John Greenleaf Whittier
6. James N. Buffum
7. Henry I. Bowditch
8. William F. Channing
9. Frederick S. Cabot

Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-18,1843-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 18, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 13

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 13

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: delegates from the several counties of this Commonwealth to whom the petitions of George Latimer and others to the Massachusetts Legislature and to Congress were entrusted, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Different counties for each signature, Great Massachusetts Petition, George Latimer

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11330

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.