Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Polly Atkins

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858050">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858050</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Provincetown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Atkins, Provincetown </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Polly Atkins</li><li>Sally Rider</li><li>Ruth A. Nickerson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 81 </p> <p>Female signatures: 81 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: ladies, [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>: Manuscript </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>