These resolutions were laid on the table, under the order of the 12th of December last.
Memorials praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and the Territories where they exist, were presented as follows, to wit:
By Mr. Adams: Of Relief Shumway and 64 others, of Ware village, in the State of Massachusetts;
Of Cynthia K. Daggett and others, of Pawtucket, in the State of Massachusetts;
Of Virgil Noble and others, of Otter creek, Green county, Illinois;
Of Rachel C. Bliss and others, females, of Rehoboth, Bristol county, in the State of Massachusetts.
SOURCE: Century of Lawmaking House Journal --MONDAY, February 18, 1839.
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