Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Hannah Turner

Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858062 Date of creation: 1838-12 Petition location: Scituate Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William James, Scituate; committee on domestic slavery Selected signatures:Hannah TurnerJanny JacobRuth Cushing Total signatures: 253 Female signatures: 253 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: women, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [comparison of two Scituate texts] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 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.