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Petition subject: Great Massachusetts Petition

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448109

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Edgartown

Total signatures: 374

Unidentified signatures: 374

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

Additional archivist notes: George Latimer [note: this data reflects the information on the spreadsheet submitted by Henry I. Bowditch and William F. Channing to the legislature, which was filed with St. 1843, c.69, passed April 26, 1843. The majority of the Great Massachusetts Petition has not been located.]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1843, c.69, passed April 26, 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.