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Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005509

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George W. Greene, Milton; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. Francis Jackson
3. Samuel May Jr.
4. Wendell Phillips
5. Charles K. Whipple
6. Edmund Jackson
7. Daniel F. Child
8. William Wells Brown
9. Robert F. Wallcut
10. Robert R. Crosby
11. Henry C. Wright
12. Elen M. Tarr
13. John M. Spear
14. Cornelius Bramhall
15. James B. Yerrinton
16. Henry P. Trask
17. Joseph Noyes
18. Ignatius Sargent
19. Henry J. Prentiss
20. Harriet B. Hall
21. Lucy Stone
22. Helen E. Garrison
23. Charles H. Duncan

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-01

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 1, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 165

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 86

Female signatures: 26

Other male signatures: 30

Unidentified signatures: 23

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2343

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.