House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 800, SC1/series 230, Petition of Lorrin Whiting

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of all laws making distinction on color </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956396">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956396</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1841-01-03 </p> <p>Petition location: New Marlborough </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lorrin Whiting</li><li>Sarah Smith</li><li>Lucy Turner</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 35 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 19 </p> <p>Female signatures: 16 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </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: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 800 </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>