Passed Resolves; Resolves 1837, c.75, SC1/series 228, Petition of Eliphalet Packard

<p>Petition subject: Gag rule </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456106">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456106</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1837-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Cummington </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles P. Huntington, Northampton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Eliphalet Packard</li><li>Thomas Jordan</li><li>John Shaw</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 33 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Includes note </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1837, c.75, passed April 12, 1837 </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>