House Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 998, SC1/series 230, Petition of William H. Sanford

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956433">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956433</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boylston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Eli B. Lamson, Boylston; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William H. Sanford</li><li>Harriet S. Sanford</li><li>Louisa Brigham</li><li>Mary White</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1841-01-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1841 and referred to the committee on that subject </p> <p>Total signatures: 81 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26 </p> <p>Female signatures: 47 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 8 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females] </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 1841, Docket 998 </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>