Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Mary D. White

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:11858024 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: North Bridgewater Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jesse Perkins, North Bridgewater; committee on domestic slavery Selected signatures:Mary D. WhiteBetsy ThayerHezekiah Packard Total signatures: 50 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26 Female signatures: 24 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Male columns on right-hand side, female leading the petition even though the majority of signers are males 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.