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Petition subject: 3 items: no slavery, especially not without due process; no discrimination; to define rights on railroads to prevent insulting or assaulting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670562

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boxborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jasper Stone, Boxborough; Stevens Hayward; special joint committee on the Governor's Address

Selected signatures:

1. Jasper Stone
2. J.S. Brooks
3. Mary Stone
4. A.E. Stearns

Actions taken on dates: 1844-01-12,1844-01-13

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 12, 1844 and referred to the special joint committee on the Governor's Address and received in the House on January 13, 1844 and concurred

Total signatures: 128

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 59

Female signatures: 66

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["inhabitants"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1844, c.87, passed March 15, 1844

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.