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Petition subject: For a law to prevent and punish kidnapping

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005502

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis W. Bird, Walpole; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. S.G. Howe [Samuel Gridley Howe?]
2. Samuel May
3. Walter Channing
4. Francis Jackson
5. Samuel E. Sewall
6. Joseph Southwick
7. William C. Nell
8. Thomas T. Bouve
9. George William Bond
10. Theodore Parker
11. John W. Browne

Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary.

Total signatures: 12

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a committee appointed by a meeting at Faneuil Hall on the 24th of September last, committee of vigilance, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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 1847, Docket 1910

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.