Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9794, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry C. Gillis

<p>Petition subject: Against the resolutions to suppress abolitionist societies and publications </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857829">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11857829</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Lowell </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Erasmus D. Leavitt, Lowell; Jesse Fox, Lowell </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Henry C. Gillis</li><li>Walker Buswell</li><li>Nathaniel Thurston</li><li>Zimri Lew</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 177 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 177 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["legal voters"] </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9794 </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>