Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Thomas Thaxter

Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857992 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Methuen Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joshua Buswell, Methuen; committee on domestic slavery Selected signatures:Thomas ThaxterEliza DavisBenjamin Wilson Total signatures: 182 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 94 Female signatures: 88 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, males, females Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 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.