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Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029696

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Albert Tolman, Worcester; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Edmund Quincy
4. Wendell Phillips
5. William I. Bowditch
6. John Rogers
7. Edmund Jackson
8. Charles F. Hovey
9. Charles K. Whipple
10. Samuel May Jr.
11. John M. Spear
12. Robert F. Wallcut
13. Bourne Spooner

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and leave to withdraw

Total signatures: 13

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, leave to withdraw

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 13

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: petitioners for a Convention of the People of this Commonwealth to devise measures for a peaceful Secession of Massachusetts from the Union, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Remonstrance against the action of the House on their petition; Samuel Philbrick signature crossed out

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2552

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.