House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 788, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joseph Bates

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida as a slave state </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956351">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956351</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1841-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Fairhaven </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ezekiel Sawin, Fairhaven </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Bates</li><li>Samuel H. Eldridge</li><li>Josiah H. Jenney</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 52 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 52 </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 788 </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>