House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Edward W. Gardner

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of anti-miscegenation and all laws making distinction on color </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956448">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956448</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Joy, Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Edward W. Gardner</li><li>Phebe Gardner</li><li>Phebe Hussey</li><li>George Bradburn</li><li>Eunice Hadwen</li><li>Lewis Green</li><li>Arthur Cooper</li><li>David Joy</li><li>Isaac Austin</li><li>Wesley Berry</li><li>Anna Gardner</li><li>Edward J. Pompey</li><li>Eunice F. Ross</li><li>Maria Cooper</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 153 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 86 </p> <p>Female signatures: 67 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], [females of color], [males of color], ["inhabitants"], ["men"], ["women"] </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1842, Docket 1153 </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>