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Petition subject: Against the repeal of the personal liberty laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668847

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: New Bedford

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Sabin P. Chamberlain, New Bedford; committee on the personal liberty laws

Selected signatures:

1. Solomon Peneton
2. Lloyd H. Brooks
3. John Freedom
4. William Jackson

Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-06,1861-02-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on February 7, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 264

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 264

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Reverend

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861

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.