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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858637

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Montague

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Carver Hotchkiss, Franklin; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Arza Bardwell
2. Lysander French
3. Ellen L. Clary

Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-09

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 9, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations

Total signatures: 289

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 153

Female signatures: 101

Other male signatures: 20

Unidentified signatures: 15

Female only signatures: No

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

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 1860, leave to withdraw

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.