House Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 1153, SC1/series 230, Petition of Judith Haskell

<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:10956463">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956463</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alvah Crocker, Fitchburg; committee on the petition of Francis Jackson and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Judith Haskell</li><li>Jane Porter</li><li>Ellen Shirley</li><li>Mary Peabody</li><li>Charlotte Hendrick</li><li>Henrietta Prentiss</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 69 </p> <p>Female signatures: 69 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], ["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>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>