House Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 998, SC1/series 230, Petition of Maria F. Rice

<p>Petition subject: Repeal of interracial marriage, anti-miscegenation laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956426">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10956426</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Northborough </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joel Bartlett, Northborough </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Maria F. Rice</li><li>Laura A. Fawcett</li><li>Sophia Ball</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 13 </p> <p>Female signatures: 13 </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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Attached to two other petitions </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1841, Docket 998 </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>