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Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida as a slave state

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956418

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Brimfield

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

Selected signatures:

1. William Tarbell
2. Betsey Tarbell
3. William C. Griggs

Total signatures: 35

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12

Female signatures: 13

Unidentified signatures: 10

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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 963

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.