Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Levi Brigham

Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857904 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Dunstable Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the subject Selected signatures:Levi BrighamMark FletcherPeter Swallow Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-26,1839-01-26 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 26, 1839 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 26, 1839 and concurred Total signatures: 26 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: legal voters, [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed 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.