Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11081, SC1/series 231, Petition of Eliza C. Clapp

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858196">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858196</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Leicester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Sargent, Leicester; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Eliza C. Clapp</li><li>Julia S. Andrews</li><li>Lucy B. Demond</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in February 1840 </p> <p>Total signatures: 97 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received </p> <p>Female signatures: 97 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: women, [females] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Legislator's name is covered </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11081 </p> <p>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.</p>