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Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857942

Date of creation: 1838-12-19

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel E. Sewall
2. Charles R. Pettengill
3. James C. Odiorne
4. Perez Gill
5. Joseph Noyes
6. Orin Carpenter
7. John T. Hilton
8. Robert Morris
9. Catherine Barbadoes
10. Chloe A. Lee
11. William C. Nell
12. Eunice R. Davis
13. Peter Gray
14. Henry Weeden
15. Joel W. Lewis

Total signatures: 162

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 133

Female signatures: 12

Unidentified signatures: 17

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Appears that only the bottom two sections include females

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525

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.