Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Gamaliel W. Oliver

Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857985 Date of creation: 1839-01-22 Petition location: Lynn Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Lynn; committee on domestic slavery Selected signatures:Gamaliel W. OliverBenjamin JohnsonJames N. Buffum Total signatures: 620 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 620 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [\"legal voters\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: In 1814, William Lloyd Garrison was apprenticed to Gamaliel W. Oliver, a shoemaker 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.