House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1891, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonathan Drake

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029580">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029580</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Leominster </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James Burditt, Leominster </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Jonathan Drake</li><li>Isaac Smith</li><li>Frances H. Drake</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1847 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 144 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 101 </p> <p>Female signatures: 30 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 8 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 5 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, not legal, non-voters, [females], [other males], ["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>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 1847, Docket 1891 </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>