Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Experience Stebbins

<p>Petition subject: To abolish slavery in Washington D.C. </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858114">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858114</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: South Wilbraham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William V. Sessions, Wilbraham; committee on the petition of Henry Edwards and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Experience Stebbins</li><li>Sarah Stebbins</li><li>Martha M. Saxton</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 113 </p> <p>Female signatures: 113 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females], ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Example of erased signatures </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>