House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathan Heaton

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956395">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956395</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Franklin </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathan Heaton</li><li>Anna Whiting</li><li>Nancy Frost</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 104 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 37 </p> <p>Female signatures: 67 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [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 1840, Docket 800 </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>