Regular Free Soil Ticket. For Representatives to General Court, Henry Humphreys, Asaph Churchill

Likely Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1848. Handbill measuring 5 x 4 inches. “1848” written in pencil at upper margin, fine condition. Fine. A rare Free Soil Party handbill for a local election which was likely printed in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1848. We find records of Humphreys and Churchill in Dorchester, where both of their names appear on a large broadside for a Free Soil rally in the same year. We also find Humphreys listed as participating in a Free Soilers reunion several decades later. The party was formed during the 1848 presidential election. The aforementioned broadside advertises a large rally in Dorchester in July of 1848, and we suspect that this handbill was printed in the ensuing months. We find no other records of this in auction records or institutional holdings.