House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1891, SC1/series 230, Petition of Edward Bennett

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029576">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029576</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: North Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Josiah W. Kingman, North Bridgewater </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward Bennett</li><li>Priscila S. Whiting</li><li>William Whiting</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Laid on table </p> <p>Total signatures: 155 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Laid on table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 90 </p> <p>Female signatures: 52 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 13 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, mails, ladies, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1847, Docket 1891 </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>