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Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029956

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Nantucket, South Groton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Peleg Ray, Nantucket; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Oliver C. Gardner
2. Julia A. Bunker
3. Hannah Maria Fosdick
4. Anna Gardner
5. Charles Folger
6. Mary Coffin
7. Mary Sanford Mitchell
8. Louisa Mitchell
9. Wesley Berry
10. Mary Berry
11. Paulina Elliott
12. Sarah Ross
13. Lizzie Barber
14. Ann Cooper
15. Patience Cooper

Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1859 and concurred

Total signatures: 204

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47

Female signatures: 150

Unidentified signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not 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: House Unpassed 1859, rejected

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.