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House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1724, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Stephens

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1724, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Stephens
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CZXNCJ
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029557

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the Georgia resolutions

Selected signatures:

  1. William Stephens
  2. Bourne Spooner
  3. Caleb C. Bradford
  4. Abby M. Diaz [Abby Morton Diaz?]

Actions taken on dates: 1846-03-10,1846-03-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 10, 1846 and referred to the committee on the Georgia resolutions and tabeled on March 10, 1846

Total signatures: 108

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58

Female signatures: 36

Unidentified signatures: 14

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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 1846, Docket 1724

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
laid on the table
received
referred
Printed
John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the Georgia resolutions
Abby M. Diaz [Abby Morton Diaz?]
Bourne Spooner
Caleb C. Bradford
William Stephens
citizens
females
inhabitants
others
not column separated
No
36
58
108
14