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Petition subject: Removal of Edward Greeley Loring

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029788

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel U. Johnson, Abington; committee on probate and chancery

Selected signatures:

1. A.M. Folger
2. William Bunker
3. Wesley Berry
4. Mary Berry
5. Julia Smith
6. Paulina Elliott
7. Jane Wheeler
8. Sarah Gardner
9. Isaac Austin
10. Ann Gardner

Actions taken on dates: 1858-01-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 9, 1858 and laid on the table and taken up and referred to the committee on probate and chancery

Total signatures: 66

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, taken up, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 23

Female signatures: 29

Unidentified signatures: 14

Female only signatures: No

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

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: Two texts

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1858, laid on the table

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.