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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005527

Date of creation: 1851-01-20

Petition location: Southborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hon. N.P. Banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives, State House; committee on the judiciary; Nathaniel P. Banks Jr., Waltham

Selected signatures:

1. S. Fay

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 17, 1851 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal town meeting in Southborough

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Resolution against the fugitive slave laws

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3107

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.