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Petition subject: To define rights on railroads

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858135

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Amesbury, Salisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Appleton Howe, Norfolk; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others

Selected signatures:

1. John G. Sargent
2. James Campell
3. John Graham
4. John Greenleaf Whittier

Actions taken on dates: 1842-01-25,1842-01-25

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 25, 1842 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 25, 1842 and concurred

Total signatures: 76

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 76

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057

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.