House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2122, SC1/series 230, Petition of Isaac Austin

Petition subject: Secession from the Union Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029652 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph Mitchell, Nantucket; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Isaac AustinWesley BerryMary BerryJohn BarberAnn BarberEdward J. Pompey Actions taken on dates: 1848-02-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 5, 1848 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 27 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 Female signatures: 5 Other male signatures: 2 Unidentified signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Newspaper clipping on back with Liberator agents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2122 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.