Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Hannah Turner

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. and against the admission of Florida and slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858062">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858062</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1838-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Scituate </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William James, Scituate; committee on domestic slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Hannah Turner</li><li>Janny Jacob</li><li>Ruth Cushing</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 253 </p> <p>Female signatures: 253 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: women, [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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [comparison of two Scituate texts] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </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>