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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858695

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Weymouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Otis Smith, Weymouth; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Noah Fifield
2. Mary Weston
3. Julia A. Baker
4. Maria Weston Chapman

Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-23

Legislative action: Received in the Houseand referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 23, 1860 and concurred

Total signatures: 175

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

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

Female signatures: 70

Unidentified signatures: 52

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Very odd shape, pasted on back of brown wrapping paper

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw

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.