Senate Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 13056, SC1/series 231, Petition of Ezra Spooner

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858218">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858218</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Fairhaven </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Captain John Bunker, Fairhaven, Ms.; Pliny Merrick, Worcester </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Ezra Spooner</li><li>Sarah Lawton</li><li>Lucy Dexter</li><li>Nathaniel Hathaway</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 26 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14 </p> <p>Female signatures: 12 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], ["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>Additional archivist notes: Note on back </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 13056 </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>