Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of William B. Fox

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida, Texas, and other slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858123">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858123</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ichabod Washburn; joint special committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William B. Fox</li><li>Cyrus P. Grosvenor</li><li>Luther G. Rice</li><li>John Milton Earle</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 431 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 431 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color?] </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: edited prayer </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>