Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edward Hitchcock

Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857968 Date of creation: 1838-10-29 Petition location: Amherst Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Dickinson, Amherst [Edward Dickinson, Amherst or Oliver Dickinson II, Amherst]; committee on slavery Selected signatures:Edward HitchcockEdward GillettHorace Hutchinson Total signatures: 113 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 113 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: members of Amherst College, [\"others\"] 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 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.