Passed Resolves; Resolves 1837, c.75, SC1/series 228, Petition of Cyrus Mann

<p>Petition subject: Arguing for the right to petition and protesting the existence of slavery in Washington D.C. </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456162">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10456162</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Westminster </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Luther Pierce, Pelham </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Cyrus Mann</li><li>Samuel Clark</li><li>Edward Kendall</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 51 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] </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: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Reverend Cyrus Mann </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1837, c.75, passed April 12, 1837 </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>