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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858617

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Ashburnham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ephraim W. Bull, Concord; committee on federal relations; Mr. Alvan Ward, Ashburnham, Mass.

Selected signatures:

1. Harriet N. Brown
2. Mehitabel Hayward
3. Angelina G. Ward

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-20,1855-02-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 21, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 33

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Female signatures: 33

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: women, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: School District No. 10

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.