Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Mary S. Durfee

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857893">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857893</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Fall River </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Harris, Fall River; committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Mary S. Durfee</li><li>Sarah S. Green</li><li>Eunice Chace</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1839-02-21,1839-02-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 22, 1839 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1369 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Female signatures: 1369 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], [minors], ["ladies"] </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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: It appears that different prayers were glued together (part of Texas prayer towards the middle of the petition); message to women on back </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>