House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2512, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Brigham

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005511">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005511</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Marlborough </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis Brigham, Marlborough; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles Brigham</li><li>Sarah A. Wood</li><li>Joseph S. Bradley</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 61 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 41 </p> <p>Female signatures: 19 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], [other males], ["other 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: 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 1850, Docket 2512 </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>