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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C.

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11149104

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Haverhill

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James H. Duncan, Haverhill

Selected signatures:

1. Henry Plummer
2. Ezra C. Ames
3. Samuel Greenleaf

Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-12,1839-01-14,1839-02-23,1839-02-28,1839-03-02,1839-03-04

Legislative action: House order on slavery on January 12, 1839 and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 14, 1839 and concurred and report on slavery laid on the table to be printed in the Senate on February 23, 1839 and placed on orders on February 28, 1839 and laid on the table on March 2, 1839 and passed over on March 2, 1839 and motion to recommitt report laid on the table and resolutions printed on March 4, 1839

Total signatures: 204

Legislative action summary: Order, sent, received, concurred, report, laid on table, printed, placed on orders, laid on table, passed over, motion to recommit laid on table, resolutions printed

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 204

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["legal voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Reverend Henry Plummer; the legislative actions might apply to all petition in docket 10525, will need to analyze this information more

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525

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.