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House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1891, SC1/series 230, Petition of Hiram Withington

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1891, SC1/series 230, Petition of Hiram Withington
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DUDYW
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Secession from the Union

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029587

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Leominster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James Burditt, Leominster; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

  1. Hiram Withington
  2. Lydia L. Walker
  3. Mary S. Howe

Actions taken on dates: 1847-03-02

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 30

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20

Female signatures: 10

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, non voters, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: 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 1847, Docket 1891

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
received
referred
Printed
James Burditt, Leominster; committee on the judiciary
Hiram Withington
Lydia L. Walker
Mary S. Howe
females
inhabitants
legal voters
non voters
others
column separated
No
10
20
30