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Petition: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858358

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Westminster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; special committee on the subject of slavery

Top signatures:

1. Calvin Whitney
2. John Heywood
3. Huldah B. Whitney

Actions taken on
dates: 1851-03-05,1851-03-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1851 and referred to the special committee on the subject of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 108

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53

Female signatures: 55

Identifications of signatories: inh
abitants, legal voters, other persons, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealt
h, 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.