House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Tower Hazard

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956474">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956474</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Acton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George S. Boutwell, Groton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Tower Hazard</li><li>Harris Cowdrey</li><li>John Fletcher</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 33 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: adults, male citizens </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: Includes message </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153 </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>