Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11057, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Harlow

<p>Petition subject: To define rights on railroads </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858150">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858150</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Wrentham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William B. Duggan, Quincy </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Harlow</li><li>Lydia H. White</li><li>James Cheever</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 172 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 86 </p> <p>Female signatures: 72 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 14 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants </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: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Abolitionist wafers </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11057 </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>