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Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956468

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Brookfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hollis Tidd, New Braintree; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. John M. Fisk
2. Luther Stone
3. Horatio Hall

Actions taken on dates: 1842-02-03,1842-02-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 3, 1842 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 4, 1842 and laid on the table

Total signatures: 111

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 111

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Tidd might be clerk or representative, not clear

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153

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.