Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Sarah H. Earle

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida, Texas, and other slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858121">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858121</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ichabod Washburn; joint special committee for that purpose </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Sarah H. Earle</li><li>Julia Ann Wallace</li><li>Adaline A. Hubbard</li><li>Sarah Wall</li><li>Sarah E. Wall</li><li>Lucinda Cummings</li><li>Louisa Hecktor</li><li>Lucy Hecktor</li><li>Diana Robinson</li><li>Hannah Field</li><li>Zonah Gimbee</li><li>Eliza Hemenway</li><li>Lydia Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 322 </p> <p>Female signatures: 322 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: women, [females], [females of color], [minors] </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: edited prayer; Sarah E. Wall signed this petition as a 13 year old; note on copied signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </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>