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Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858373

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Jackson
2. Charles Palmer
3. Eliza F. Eddy
4. Elizabeth M. Copeland
5. James Jackson
6. Frederic Falsom
7. Jeremiah Stoddard
8. Anna M. Hoyt
9. Henry T. Parker
10. R.E. Apthorp [Robert East Apthorp]
11. Charles Francis Adams
12. Charles Sumner
13. Allen Spooner
14. Samuel Eldridge
15. Richard H. Dana Jr.
16. Robert Morris
17. William Lloyd Garrison
18. William C. Nell
19. Robert F. Wallcut
20. Samuel May Jr.
21. Joseph Southwick
22. John M. Spear
23. Henry J. Prentiss
24. Robert R. Crosby
25. Charles K. Whipple
26. William C. Brown
27. Louisa E. Gray
28. Mary C. Blanchard
29. Joseph W. Allyne
30. Sarah Nye
31. Lysander Spooner
32. John P. Coburn
33. Bela Marsh
34. William F. Channing
35. Lewis Hayden
36. Henry I. Bowditch
37. Henry W. Williams
38. Benjamin B. Appleton
39. George Washington
40. George P. Atkins
41. Isabella Stuart
42. Hervey E. Weston
43. Isaac Barbadoes
44. Ann Maria Partridge
45. George W.F. Mellen
46. Daniel F. Child
47. John T. Sargent
48. Theodore Parker
49. Abel Smith
50. Edmund Jackson
51. Samuel Hoyt

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 1290

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 762

Female signatures: 276

Other male signatures: 105

Unidentified signatures: 147

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["voters"], ["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

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.