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Petition subject: Protesting the foreign slave trade

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455879

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Andover

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Stevens, Andover; committee on the memorial of A.H. Edwards and others

Selected signatures:

1. Mark Newman
2. Jacob Descomb
3. Leonard Woods

Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-30,1839-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 1839 and referred to the committee on the memorial of A.H. Edwards and others and received in the Senate on January 31, 1839 and concurred

Total signatures: 201

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 201

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, faculty and members of the Theological Seminary

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Includes a column for the faculty and members of the Theological Seminary

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1839, c.36, passed March 21, 1839

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.