House Unpassed Legislation 1840, Docket 788, SC1/series 230, Petition of Oliver C. Gardner

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida as a slave state </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956353">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956353</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Bradburn, Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Oliver C. Gardner</li><li>Eliza Barney</li><li>Philander Coffin</li><li>Edward J. Pompey</li><li>Patience Cooper</li><li>Eunice F. Ross</li><li>Isaac Austin</li><li>David Joy</li><li>George Bradburn</li><li>A.F. Boston [Absalom F. Boston]</li><li>Ann Gardner</li><li>Lydia Mitchell</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 122 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69 </p> <p>Female signatures: 53 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], [males of color], ["men"], ["women"], ["persons"] </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: [Basing gender numbers on what the petitions states because the overall number was correct] </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>