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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Southwick

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Southwick
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2EBQ9
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858778

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Needham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Solomon Flagg, Needham

Top signatures:

  1. Joseph Southwick
  2. David Keith
  3. John Sawyer

Legislative action: Received in the House and laid on the table.

T
otal signatures: 50

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 18

Female signatures: 17

Other male signatures: 14

Unidentified signatures: 1

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [other males], ["others"]

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 Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard Univer
sity, and Harvard University Library.


 
Subject laid on the table
received
Printed
Solomon Flagg, Needham
David Keith
John Sawyer
Joseph Southwick
citizens
females
legal voters
other adults
other males
column separated
17
18
14
50
1