Passed Acts; St. 1843, c.5, SC1/series 229, Petition of Josiah Bartlett

Petition subject: Interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation law Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670410 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Concord Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Anthony Wright, Concord; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others Selected signatures:Josiah BartlettJohn ThoreauEliza J. StacyAbigail Alcott Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-19,1843-01-21 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 19, 1843 and referred to the committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1843 and concurred Total signatures: 134 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 Female signatures: 93 Unidentified signatures: 29 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], [\"others\"], [\"inhabitants\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: At least one Reverend Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1843, c.5, passed February 25, 1843 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.