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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Ira Gray

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Ira Gray
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4RKTY
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858446

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Reading

Selected signatures:

  1. Ira Gray
  2. Richard Williams
  3. Abby Bartlett

Total signatures: 503

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 213

Female signatures: 208

Other male signatures: 62

Unidentified signatures: 20

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [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

Additional archivist notes: [unique layout of petition]

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
Abby Bartlett
Ira Gray
Richard Williams
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
column separated
No
208
213
62
503
20