Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Milley Cummings

<p>Petition subject: Trial by jury </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857959">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857959</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Ashburnham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Reuben Townsend, Ashburnham; committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Milley Cummings</li><li>Cynthia Jones</li><li>Sarah Marshfield</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 225 </p> <p>Female signatures: 225 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: women over 15, [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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </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>