House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1286, SC1/series 230, Petition of Preston Fisher

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029531">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029531</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Wrentham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J.A. Craige; committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Preston Fisher</li><li>William Cowell</li><li>Leonard White</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 52 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 52 </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [Needs conservation; message to women on the back] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1286 </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>