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Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956425

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Cambridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

1. M.A. Parker
2. Lucy G. Alden
3. Sarah H. Cook

Total signatures: 112

Female signatures: 112

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: female citizens, [females], ["women"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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 1841, Docket 998

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.