Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of David Stiles

Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857995 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Middleton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles A. Andrew, Salem Selected signatures:David StilesSamuel DemseyJoseph W. Batchelder Total signatures: 32 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, [illegible] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Can't read second column's title, but believe it is also "legal voters" (possibly "ditto"?) 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.