House Unpassed Legislation 1838, Docket 450, SC1/series 230, Petition of William Rotch Jr.

<p>Petition subject: Against the resolutions of the slave-holding states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935287">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935287</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: New Bedford </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin Coombs, New Bedford </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Rotch Jr.</li><li>Thomas Pope</li><li>Paul Barney</li><li>Richard Johnson</li><li>Ezra R. Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 100 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 100 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color] </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Only document in folder not digitized is petition wrapper </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1838, Docket 450 </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>