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Petition subject: For the removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858589

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Milton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Prince, Essex; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Eliza Owens
2. Sarah B. Hatch
3. Frances M. Robbins

Actions taken on dates: 1855-02-12,1855-02-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 13, 1855 and concurred.

Total signatures: 78

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Female signatures: 78

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: women

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: There was a piece of paper labeled 121 before this with no petition, included in folder, refers to "sundry petitions" and includes date that is used for this petition, but most of the petitions have their own legislative action; interesting text

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1855, Docket 18373

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.