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House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joseph Bates

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joseph Bates
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D4JMW
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

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

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956392

Date of creation: 1841-01

Petition location: Fairhaven

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ezekiel Sawin, Fairhaven

Selected signatures:

  1. Joseph Bates
  2. Joseph Millett
  3. John Bunker

Total signatures: 44

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 44

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

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 1840, Docket 800

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
Printed
Ezekiel Sawin, Fairhaven
John Bunker
Joseph Bates
Joseph Millett
citizens
others
No
44
44
 
Date 1841-01