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Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858408

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Newburyport

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Girdler II, Manchester; joint special committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. John L. Lord
2. Charles Whipple
3. Hiram B. Lord

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08

Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 55

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 48

Other male signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [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

Additional archivist notes: Printed letter on the back of this petition from vigilance committee, very important

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162

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.