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Petition subject: Interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation law

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670408

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Springfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Francis Adams, Boston; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. S. Osgood
2. Luther Bliss
3. F.F. Osgood
4. Asa B. Clark
5. Rufus Elmer

Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-16,1843-01-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and received in the Senate on January 19, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 39

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1843, c.5, passed February 25, 1843

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.