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Petition: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858422

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worthington

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen B. Fuller; William Taylor, Norwich who moves to lay on the table; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery

Top signat
ures:

1. Thomas Ring
2. Seth Cole
3. Stephen B. Fuller

Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-28,1851-01-29

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 43

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

Le
gal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 43

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

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.